MATRIX 287 / Berenice Olmedo

August 13–November 23, 2025

MATRIX 287 / Berenice Olmedo is the first museum exhibition in the United States for artist Berenice Olmedo (b. 1987, Oaxaca, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City). Olmedo’s intimate yet commanding anthropomorphic assemblages with fused prostheses and orthotics urge a reconsideration of standardized expectations of bodies.

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MATRIX 287 / Berenice Olmedo

August 13–November 23, 2025

MATRIX 287 / Berenice Olmedo is the first US museum exhibition of the work of artist Berenice Olmedo (b. 1987, Oaxaca, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City). Working across sculpture, performance, and kinetic installation, Olmedo is known for her anthropomorphic assemblages with fused prostheses and orthotics. Her intimate yet commanding freestanding figures and wall-based installations urge a reconsideration of standardized expectations of bodies. As the artist wrote, “There is no stigma of disability in the world I propose, but only variations of existence, variations of movement, variations on slowness and speed.”

To craft her amalgamated beings, OImedo casts medical plastics, armatures, and implants, joining prosthetic arm and leg sockets, scoliosis corsages, and collars to create works that transcend the specificities of her references. Rather than incorporate orthopedic devices as found objects, her sculptures define themselves through the conjunction of their parts and the freedom of their own completion. Olmedo’s resulting carefully balanced, brightly hued, and luminous forms offer profound meditations on the simultaneous fragility and resilience of human life.

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MATRIX 287 / Berenice Olmedo is curated by Margot Norton, Chief Curator.

The exhibition is part of BAMPFA’s ongoing MATRIX series of contemporary art exhibitions. Founded in 1978, MATRIX provides artists with an experimental platform to make and show new work.

MATRIX 287 / Berenice Olmedo

August 13–November 23, 2025

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