Three works by Yeni Mao will be part of the group exhibition (Des)vestir y (des)obedecer at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan (Guadalajara, Mexico), from June 5 to September 6.
In the manner of a material fetishization, Yeni Mao’s works suggest abstracted and disarticulated bodies; cyborg constructions made from found, fabricated, or sculpted components. The artist evokes and examines a sense of otherness, alongside sensations of restriction, domination, and order.
"Modern Western institutions —such as medical and sanitary institutions— took charge of regulating the body through strategies of domination and control. To this end, agendas were established that made it possible to distinguish between the civil and the barbaric, the administrable and the condemnable. One of the main consequences was the regulation of desire. Desire, as a sphere of the private, migrated into the sphere of public interest, delimited by secular values around gender, race, and social class. It is no coincidence that clothing is considered one of the most efficient tools of biopolitical control: to dress the body is a desire in tension with the society that regulates its behavior."
Curated by Rodrigo Santoscoy
Pia Camil
Edgar Cobián
Mella Jaarsma
Mike Kelley
Sarah Lucas
Yeni Mao
Balleth Meccanicue
Guadalupe Montes
Maximiliano Ruelas
Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Urara Tsuchiya
Sentimiento
May 28, 2026