About the artist
Cynthia Granados *CYNAMööN* (Mexico City, b.1982)
Cynthia Granados completed a Bachelor of Media and Communication in Mexico City in 2006, graduating with the thesis Iconological Analysis of Remedios Varo's Ouvre: The Moon as a Symbol of Femininity. She is currently undertaking a Master of Arts - Art in Public Space at RMIT University. She has worked in the arts sector in Mexico as assistant editor, photographer and cultural events coordinator for the literary magazine Revista De Libros and Donceles 66, a new cultural centre in the heart of Mexico City. Most recently, she took part in the Melbourne project Intersection for the Moonee Valley Arts Week 2009, producing the photographic work The Moonee Valley Tarot. She is presently a coordinator for the intercultural project Alternative Worlds, which links art and design practice in Mexico, Australia and Canada.
About this work
OutsideIn is the first of a series of experiments by the artist around the sense of touch. Growing up in a Latin culture, Granados found the lesser extent to which people in Australia interact through touch in everyday life to be striking. This work highlights her desire to use art as a medium to bring attention to this sense.
Touch can provide such different and enjoyable sensorial experiences. It is increasingly taken for granted and slowly being used less as computers and other technologies become our main form of relating to each other.
The title of the piece comes from the fact that people often put on gloves when they don’t want to touch something but, in this case, the invitation is to touch what is inside those gloves—even if that cannot be seen. There are also visible objects that have tactile appeal but cannot be touched, to accentuate that although we may desire to touch we are unable to do so—as can often happen in our everyday experience.
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