Veronica Ruth Frias

Verónica Ruth Frías - Forget Princess Call Me President

Biografía del Artista: Verónica Ruth Frías (Spain, 1978) is a Spanish feminist contemporary artist based in Málaga. Her works are created through performances in which the body is subject to the work. She graduated in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville. Appropriation, costume and tattoos are some of the tools she uses to place her body at the service of art and transform the personal into artistic practices. Sarcasm, irony and humour are fundamental for the artist, although she deals with very serious issues such as the construction of the feminine, motherhood, violence against women or discrimination against women in the history of art. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions including Super M at the ECCO in Cádiz, Extra(ordinary) Narrations at the ABA Art Gallery in Palma de Mallorca and I love my mother a lot at the Tula Prins Gallery in Córdoba. She has received grants and awards such as the INICIARTE Production Grant from the Junta de Andalucía, the Rafael Botí Grant from the Rafael Botí Provincial Foundation for Plastic Arts in Córdoba, the DESENCAJA Prize for Plastic Arts in Málaga and the 10th Pepe Espaliú Plastic Arts Contest, also in Córdoba.

Verónica Ruth Frías (Córdoba, 1978) uses disguise, makeup and camouflage to take on other identities and to create a body of performative work that focuses on a sharp and frontal critique of gender issues. We have seen her as Little Red Riding Hood, the Daughter of God at the Last Supper, as a Super Heroine, as a kidnapper and, through all these characters and many more, Frías tells us what worries her, what outrages her, and what makes us question the roles of women in today's society, reaffirming her position in a man's world and, in her case, in the world of art. Her works always have a touch of mischievous and irreverent humor. She works mainly with performance and uses video and photography to record the ephemeral actions she carries out. For some years now she has been using tools such as Facebook to propose collective works in which she asks for the open and free participation of the public, of the citizens, of the people. Her works have been seen in individual and collective exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Verónica Ruth Frías has worked with curators such as Mariana Hormaechea, Nerea Ubieto, Adonay Bermúdez, Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta, Margarita Aizpuru, Javier Díaz Guardiola, Juan Ramón Barbancho and Ángel Luis Pérez Villén. She is a tireless worker and says that even though she is missing her teeth, she will continue to bite.