Epistemologies of Touch

In her first solo exhibition with bitforms gallery, Mexican artist Amor Muñoz presents nine research-based works that merge technology, craftsmanship, nature, and language with a sensorial and critical approach. Through her artistic practice, Muñoz crafts a poetry that gradually reveals itself to the viewer by activating the senses through an alternative form of knowledge: one that is intuitive, corporeal, communal, and situated. ​This exhibition showcases the result of nearly two decades of interdisciplinary exploration. Muñoz's work has addressed diverse themes including labor, technodiversity, coded poetics, the connections between form and sound, and posthumanist speculations through artificial intelligence and living matter. Her production articulates art as a social, participatory, and reflective instrument, committed to territories and communities. This positioning is no coincidence as Muñoz studied law before dedicating herself fully to art. The artist grew up in Ecatepec, a city contextualized by profound social inequalities and environmental issues. These experiences shape a critical and sensitive perspective, which imbues Muñoz’s work with an awareness of the body, the social and natural environment, and collective memory. ​Epistemologies of Touch invites viewers to read the unwritten and to listen to that which lacks a human voice. Technology, far from being cold or distant, becomes a sensitive material here: soft, intimate, and close. Textiles sing, walls codify, water expresses itself, corn speaks in a sonorous body, and the handmade is dignified. At the heart of this artistic practice lies perhaps an essential question: what will the knowledge of the future be like? Perhaps it is not about knowing more, but about doing better, with respect for the land and its languages. Amor Muñoz (b. 1979, Mexico) is an artist who experiments at the intersection of art, technology, and society. Her practice includes textiles, performance, sound, experimental electronics, interactivity, and art mediation. Throughout the last decade, her work has been involved in various artistic investigations, which have been classified into three subjects: Labor and technodiversity; Poetic code; and, Bio, crafts and technology. Muñoz’s work is concerned with the relationship between technology and society, with particular attention to the interactions between material forms and social discourse. Through a multidisciplinary practice, Muñoz’s work investigates how forms of manual labor are transformed and affected by the current global economy. Her research is focused on technology’s history, appropriation and obsolescence, as well as language systems, handicraft, and production systems (via Kadist Foundation). Her work has been exhibited in various museums, galleries and festivals, such as: 21 Haus, Belvedere (Austria); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMoMA (USA); MUAC Museum (Mexico); Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (Hong Kong); The National Art Center, Tokyo (Japan); G Museum Nanjing (China); Lentos Museum (Austria); Havana Biennial (Cuba); Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (Serbia) among others. His work has received various awards and honorable mentions in competitions and biennials such as Prix Ars Electronica, Japan Media Arts Festival, Cuenca Biennial, Mentes QUO + Discovery Channel among others. Her work has been documented and published in different media such as New York Times, Arte Journal, Deutsche Welle, etc.

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