Helena Chávez

She is a researcher at the Institute of Aesthetics Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She holds a PhD in Philosophy by UNAM. From 2009 to 2013 she was academic curator at University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), where she developed the program in Critical Theory Campus Expandido. She currently teaches at the postgraduate program of Art History at the UNAM. In 2018 she won the award Reconocimiento Distinción Universidad Nacional para Jóvenes Académicos at the UNAM. Among her curatorial projects are with Alejandra Labastida “Mothering. Between Stockholm Syndrome and Acts of Production” (MUAC 2021-2022); with Virginia Roy ¨Mazatlanica” and exhibition by Fritzia Irizar (MUAC, 2019); with Sol Henaro and Alejandra Labastida “#NoMeCansaré: Aesthetics and Politics in Mexico, 2012–2018” (MUAC 2018-2019); with Virginia Roy in the show “After the Work” by Simon Gush (Ex Teresa Arte Actual, 2018). She curated with Cuauhtémoc Medina and Alejandra Labastida "Color Theory" (MUAC, 2014-2015). Her book Insist in Politics. Rancière and the Revolt of Aesthetics was published by the IIE in 2018. She is currently working on motherhood and feminism. She collaborates with the Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.