Biography
Invited back for the 9th Sharjah Biennial in 2009, Maider López recreated Football Field, this time including Fountain, a temporary public drinking fountain.
Site-specificity underpins all of Lopez’s work with interventions ranging from the subversive tampering with a space to the complete overturning of its usual operability. These interventions in spaces, situations and architecture temporarily change the meaning of the location and as a consequence change the public’s relationship to it. López is particularly interested in the functions and norms of gallery space as this was reflected in Walls, her second work for the 9th Biennial.
As well as in built and urban environments, Lopez has also intervened in natural spaces creating projects on beaches, such as Playa (2005), in fields as in Polder Cup, 2010,) and mountain roads in Ataskoa (2009). Photographic or video documentation of these interventions often becomes another important element of the work.
López received an MFA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1999) and a BFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Bilbao (1998). She has exhibited widely, with major projects in the Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space (2009), the Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2008), the Guggenheim, Bilbao (2007), Caixa Forum, Barcelona (2006), and the Venice Biennale (2005). López was born in 1975 in San Sebastian, Spain where she continues to live and work.
October 2010
This person was part of Sharjah Biennial 9
