Sandra Sánchez
Mexico
(Mexico City, 1988) Art critic and cultural manager. Sandra Sánchez studied English Language and Literature at the UNAM, Art at Sor Juana University and at the moment Philosophy and History of Ideas at the UACM. Her field of interest is contemporary art, focusing on the relationship between the institution and the independent spaces, as well as the way in which the contemporary operates locally in front of the global discourse in which it is inserted. She is currently developing research on the white cube as a frame of art beyond the medium. Since 2011 she writes art criticism in magazines such as Cain, Code, GASTV, Spokesman, Arachne Webzine, Earthquake and Critic Blog. She is a reporter for contemporary art in the Expressions section of the newspaper Excélsior. Since 2015 she has been part of Biquini Wax, a space dedicated to young artists' exhibitions and writing, reflection and analysis of contemporary art in Mexico City. From 2014 she directs, with Gustavo Cruz, the seminar General Notions of Aesthetics for Artists (Sundays of Roof), open to the public in general.