Rosamaría Bolom
Immigrant, feminist, transdisciplinary artist, and cultural worker. Throughout her artistic and personal journey, she has discovered that art and community are the pillars of her path. Pillars that have led her to delve deeper into the concept of human dignity and what it means to be a woman in times of globalization.
Rosamaría Bolom (1977)
Sculptor of dreams in paper
Rosa María better known as Rosamaría Bolom. She was born in Mexico City. In 2002 after receiving her degree in psychology and entering the world of the arts, she took part in an educational project in the highlands of Chiapas State, in a Zapatista community. There children called her Bolom Bolom (a tzotzil word that means jaguar, cat, feline), in reference to her feline features. From that date Rosamaría takes her stage name and begins to combine her interest in psychology and art in her artistic and indivudual practice. She is convinced that art is the best tool to positively influence our society.
As a trans-disciplinary artist she is working mostly with text, masks, sculpture and interventions to explore the limits of the imaginary, the symbolic and the real. Her work reflects on the concept of human dignity and what it means to be an immigrant woman in times of globalization in the context of globalization.
Her artistic and personal practice is based on the collectivity, otherness, subjectivity, human relationships, symbolic language, identity, migration, feminism, human rights, pedagogical tools and sharing spaces to create a bridge for understanding.
In 2009 she arrived to Finland, where she currently lives as a Finnish citizen and where she has been involved in the formation of three emblematic collectives: Third Space Gallery -a cross border transcultural artist space that seeks to erase the invisible lines that separate us offering a space free of charge to the artists in Helsinki-, MOC Collective and SomoslaColectiva. Collectives working on identity issues. The last one addresses the transfiguration of Latin American identity through experimental poetry, while the latter aims to further explore the concepts of identity, relationships, perceptions, liberation and otherness through hair.
Since 2017, Rosamaría has been part of the collective that promotes immigrant feminisms from Latin America, formerly called Red de Mujeres, now recognized as Otroas Feminismoas.
"Throughout my artistic and personal journey, I have found that art and community are the pillars that hold everything together. This path began in the year 2000, and two years later, it took a decisive turn thanks to an educational project that connected me with women and children in Zapatista communities in southeastern Mexico. It was there that the children gave me the name Bolom. Later, when I crossed the Atlantic and settled in Finland, I had experiences that deeply shaped and enriched my reflection on what it means to be an immigrant woman in times of globalization—as well as the need to create art in community". Bolom