María Llopis

Artist, activist, queer, post-pornographer…

Graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Valencia (1998) and Master in Audiovisual Animation at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2000).

Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and video programmes such as Artivistic, Montreal (2009), The Art and Politics of Netporn, Amsterdam (2006), at the Montehermoso Cultural Centre, Vitoria-Gasteiz (2010) or at the Volte Gallery in Bombay (2010).

Her professional work includes numerous workshops on art and feminism in centres such as Hangar or Arteleku in Spain, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2008) or the postpornography workshop at the City of Women Festival in Ljubljana (2007). From 2003 to 2007 she was an active member of the multidisciplinary collective “Girlswholikeporno”, with a great international trajectory. She presented an audiovisual performance at Sónar, International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art in Barcelona (2004).

She has also given lectures on new representations of sexuality in art at various Spanish universities, at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2010), and at the Post Porn Politics Symposium in Berlin (2006). In 2010 he published the book El posporno era eso with the publishing house Melusina (Barcelona).

http://www.mariallopis.com/