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“I was five or six years old and already I knew I wanted to be a painter.” Though painting is the nucleus of Harrsch’s practice, the artist has integrated a multidisciplinary approach to her work. With upcoming projects at Instituto Cervantes in June and Museo de las Americas in October, the artist continues to employ new media, sound, moving image, and sculpture into a body of work that plumbs nuanced conversations around sex, desire, gender, and fragility, all while embedding those narratives within stories of migration and identity.
The Mexico City-born artist has let her work and appetite for exploration lead her all over the world, spending the past two decades in New York City before moving to Cold Springs in the Hudson Valley, where she now resides. When she first arrived in New York in the early 2000s, Harrsch’s work was met with.