Marcela Cuevas Ríos

Intermedial artist and cultural manager from Mexico City, currently living in Murcia, Spain. She has studied photography, psychology, stage design, and the anthropology of art. She works mainly between the cities of Oaxaca de Juárez and Mexico City in the areas of filmmaking, film programming, and the pedagogical processes of experimental cinema, as well as creative writing and therapeutic accompaniment via art, performance, stage design, and community video.

 

Her work has been presented in different museums, cultural spaces, and festivals in Mexico and abroad, including Australia, the U.S., Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Canada, Uruguay, Paraguay, Spain, Chile, Guatemala, and Bolivia, among others. 

 

She is co-director of the project Consultorio de Archivo Vivo, together with documentary filmmaker, producer, and researcher Alejandra Arrieta, through which they together conduct workshops and film therapy projects. She is also part of the film programming and exhibition collective SACIMU (Oaxaca); the audiovisual creators network Yerbabuena; the logistics team of the Fisura International Experimental Film and Video Festival; and the expanded film collective Luminikarna. She participated in the book De carne y Ritual, dedicated to performance and autoethnography, published by Investigación y Diálogo para la Autogestión Social A.C. In 2021 she was a beneficiary of the Jóvenes Creadores grant awarded by FONCA.

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