WYNNIE MYNERVA: THE ORIGINAL RIOT
“Their large-scale paintings depict bodies on the edge of abstraction that refuse to be categorized, consumed, or controlled; and their radical performances and body modifications posit sexual transgression as a path to social transformation.”
Bernardo Mosqueira
June 29, 2023
“The exhibition, also called “The Original Riot,” is Mynerva’s first solo museum outing in the U.S. It’s a helpful introduction to their practice—a world of gender fluidity and sexual expression, of visceral paintings and radical body modifications.
Taylor Dafoe
July 10, 2023
What if Radical Femmes Ruled the Heavens?
“During the past few years, a new generation of young artists has gained prominence for their use of loose brushstrokes and contorted limbs to engage in feminist abstraction and semi-abstraction. Mynerva is part of this tradition, but she pushes the image of the femme body further by integrating a part of her own body and connecting it with mythological women who have been both maligned and repressed.”
Margarita Rosa
September 11, 2023
Meet painter Wynnie Mynerva, who surgically removed a rib for their current New Museum show
“Wynnie is one of the most fascinating artists of our time,” said New Museum curatorial fellow Bernardo Mosqueira, who organized this show. “There aren’t so many artists whose works can still be disturbing nowadays. Wynnie is definitely one of them, and they use this capacity in a very genuine and generative way.”
Vittoria Venzine
July 11, 2023
DECONSTRUCTING GENESIS: AN INTERVIEW OF WYNNIE MYNERVA
“The corporeal roles of masculine and feminine are constantly being subverted and abstracted in works that bleed, scratch, beguile, and thrust their way through the patriarchal canon with an air of wanton ecstasy.”
Jesus Nebreda Galindez
June 28, 2023
Wynnie Mynerva’s Bloodbath Art
“Mynerva depicts a struggle between the demolition of an oppositional feminine-masculine hierarchy, with its historical baggage, and the creation of a fluid category that melds the two.”
Salena Barry
February 24, 2023
Wynnie Mynerva: “La cirugía para cerrar mi vagina me ha cambiado la vida”
“La de Wynnie Mynerva no es una provocación gratuita. Es una revuelta contra 21 siglos de Historia del Arte en masculino (su primera carrera, luego haría Bellas Artes), una venganza contra la violencia en su país y su grito de reafirmación en unas coordenadas que ella misma ha inventado.”
VANESSA GRAELL
February 21, 2022
Recrear la vagina: el cuerpo como obra de arte sorprende en ARCO
“A través de mi obra, busco soluciones a mis conflictos y espacios de reconciliación con mi cuerpo”.
February 23, 2023
“Creo que todo está entretejido y que los cuerpos son síntomas de este tejido, laten sobre ese telar. Si bien comencé bajo una línea creo que en realidad aún somos atravesados por la clase y el género. Realmente somos atravesados completamente. Por eso siento que, al analizarlo nuevamente, el cuerpo es como el motor. También la libertad, la búsqueda de libertad o la emancipación. Ir en contra de esto que han establecido que es tu cuerpo.”
Conversación entre Blanca Ortiz, Wynnie Mynerva, Nicola Espinosa y Mercedes Reátegui
August 15, 2021
EL JARDÍN DE LAS DELICIAS: LA UTOPÍA SEXUAL DE WYNNIE MYNERVA
“Una de las grandes maravillas del arte es que permite generar conexiones que rompen barreras. Para Wynnie, es importante exponer su intimidad tal y como es, sin intentar representar a nadie, pero esperando que mucha gente se sienta identificada. “Mi nivel de conciencia se activó cuando me di cuenta que ser mujer (en esta sociedad) era negarse posibilidades y formas de vivir mi vida”.”
Gianfranco Suito
María Abaddon and Wynnie Mynerva
Proyecto AMIL
“Framing his text as an intimate letter to Abbadon and Mynerva, López portrayed the artists’ process as a symbolic act of dissidence in favor of a political reembodiment of gender. The text seemed to conflate—to essentializing effect—the complex bridges between affectivity, friendship, and LGBTQ activist dissidence.”
Mercedes Reátegui
2022
Les tableaux érotiques de Wynnie Mynerva, un fantasme de revanche cathartique
EMMA RUSSELL
May 31, 2021