bárbara sánchez-kane, 2025
photo: eike walkenhorst
bárbara sánchez-kane
1987, Mérida, Mexico
Under the figure of the macho sentimental, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane resists the traditional notions of mexicanidad and its relationship with the feminine and masculine. Whether through fashion, performance, painting or installation, all of her works present the anxieties and fears of daily life to question pleasure and domination within a hegemonic masculine society.
Sánchez-Kane lives and works in Mexico City.
ff número 1, 2025, c-print, paper size: 50.8 x 40.6 cm
ff número 3, 2025, c-print, paper size: 16 x 20 cm
ff número 6, 2025, c-print, paper size: 40.6 x 50.8 cm
look 8, 2025, belts, buckles, bronze, 175 x 100 x 64 cm
look 3, 2023, belts, rivets, polyester and metal, 210 x 140 x 50 cm
look 2, 2023, belts, rivets, polyester, metal, 203 x 216 x 44 cm
prêt-à-patria, 2024, performance from original itinerant performance in the arsenale for the 60th international art exhibition - la biennale di venezia stranieri ovunque - foreigners everywhere, Duration: 6 min 23 sec, edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
prêt-à-patria, 2024, performance from original itinerant performance in the arsenale for the 60th international art exhibition - la biennale di venezia stranieri ovunque - foreigners everywhere, Duration: 6 min 23 sec, edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
prêt-à-patria, 2024, performance from original itinerant performance in the arsenale for the 60th international art exhibition - la biennale di venezia stranieri ovunque - foreigners everywhere, Duration: 6 min 23 sec, edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
mártires, eremitas y penitentes, 2023, bronze with patina, 15.5 x 31.5 x 9.5 cm
botas machete, 2022, leather boots, carbon steel blade machete, steel blade, polyurethane foam, chrome coating, 25 x 8 x 60 cm
zapatos silla monoblock, 2022, vinyl leather fabric and bronze, 28 x 8.5 x 13 cm
documentation bárbara sánchez-kane: performance aguas frescas, mudam luxembourg, 2025. photo: eike walkenhorst
documentation bárbara sánchez-kane: performance aguas frescas, mudam luxembourg, 2025. photo: eike walkenhorst
documentation bárbara sánchez-kane: performance aguas frescas, mudam luxembourg, 2025. photo: eike walkenhorst
installation view bárbara sánchez-kane: ¿cuántos ángeles caben en la punta de un alfiler?, collegium, 2025. photo: roberto ruiz
installation view bárbara sánchez-kane: ¿cuántos ángeles caben en la punta de un alfiler?, collegium, 2025. photo: roberto ruiz
installation view bárbara sánchez-kane: ¿cuántos ángeles caben en la punta de un alfiler?, collegium, 2025. photo: roberto ruiz
installation view bárbara sánchez-kane: prêt-à-porter, foreigners everywhere, 60th international art exhibition of la biennale di venezia, 2024. photo: nick ash
installation view bárbara sánchez-kane: prêt-à-porter, foreigners everywhere, 60th international art exhibition of la biennale di venezia, 2024. photo: nick ash
installation view bárbara sánchez-kane: prêt-à-porter, foreigners everywhere, 60th international art exhibition of la biennale di venezia, 2024. photo: nick ash
installation view of bárbara sánchez-kane: new lexicons for embodiment at kurimanzutto new york, 2023. photo: dan bradica
installation view of bárbara sánchez-kane: new lexicons for embodiment at kurimanzutto new york, 2023. photo: dan bradica
installation view of bárbara sánchez-kane: new lexicons for embodiment at kurimanzutto new york, 2023. photo: dan bradica
Past solo exhibitions and performances include: Fortuna Y Fetiche, Dashwood Projects, New York (two-person exhibition with Sofiá Alazraki) (2025); En la punta de un alfiler, Collegium, Arévalo, Ávila, Spain (2025); Young Boy Sánchez-Kane, organized by Dover Street Market, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles (2024); New Lexicons of Embodiment, kurimanzutto, New York (2023); Sánchezkaneismo, kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2022); Prêt-à-Patria, as part of Siembra, kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2021); Latino Couture, Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City (2020); Macho Sentimental vol. II, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); Las Puertas al Sentimentalismo, Licenciado Gallery, Mexico City (2019); Macho Sentimental vol. I, Grand Tour Studio, Milan (2018); and Vast Graveyard of the Missing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA Los Angeles) (2017); among others.
Past group exhibitions and biennials include: Aguas Frescas, Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City; traveled to The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (2025); Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, 60th Venice Biennale (2024); The Campus group show, Claverack, New York (2024); The Lady and the Unicorn: New Tapestry, Salon 94 Gallery, New York (2024); La Mano Negra, guadalajara90210, Guadalajara, Mexico (2023); Vida Social, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2023); Everything here is volcanic, Friedman Benda, New York (2023); Objects of Permanence, Abrons Arts Center, New York (2023); Diseño en femenino. México 1940–2022, Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City (2022); TODOS JUNTOS (All Together), kurimanzutto, New York (2022); Do we dream under the same sky, Okayama Art Summit, Japan (2022); Calor Universal, Pace Gallery, East Hampton, New York (2022); Para Morelio, PEANA, Mexico City (2021); De por Vida, Company Gallery, New York (2021); en llamas, LLANO, Mexico City (2021); OTRXS MUNDXS, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2020); SEÑORA!, MEYER*KAINER, Vienna, Austria (2020); and Prince·sse·s des villes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); among others.
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