Ambra Polidori
Mexico City 1954

Ambra Polidori graduated in Spanish Language and Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Apart from being a researcher at the Literary Studies Centre of the Institute of Philological Research at the UNAM and a contributor to various magazines such as the Spanish Lápiz and newspapers such as Unomasuno (México), this artist of Italian descent produces art works mainly based on photography that highlight social and political injustices. She resorts occasionally to other visual techniques (installation, video, etc.), but uses photography as her main means of revelation and denunciation, like a pained voice breaking through the silence of indifference to recall that we have social rights and responsibilities.  She uses the appropriation, decontextualization and re-signifying of images to introduce transgression, irony, questioning and answering. She repeatedly uses landscape to allude to the passing of time, to our lifetimes, to our physicality, stressing that now is the time to show solidarity and contribute to a social change ion which equality must not be the exception.

Polidori, who has divided her time between Mexico and Italy since 1988, has received various accolades for her visual art work, including the Immagine Donna First Prize, organised by UDI/Mandragola and ARCI (Palermo, Italy, 1985) and the Honorary Prize at the VI Photography Biennial of the National Council for Culture and the National Fine Arts Institute (Mexico CIty, 1993). In the mid-1980s she began to take part in group exhibitions in Mexico, the USA, Italy and France, and since the 1990s she has staged solo shows in cities including Madrid, Paris, New York, Milan and Mexico City.

Isabel Tejeda