‘Rocio Boliver, a performance artist born in Mexico city in 1956, uses performance as a tool to criticise the ideological expectations that the women who live in Mexico are burdened with. Her performances are a way of her controlling her own life, therefore removing boundaries and fear of losing fragility. Her performances similarly challenge censorship and the forbidden, which permits her to deconstruct her own beauty and strength through the use of pain, sex and other elements within her work.
Boliver feels that this gives her the upper-hand, empowering herself with the ability to disturb and awaken others from the monotony of contemporary society. She regards performance as a safe space whether performed in a gallery, in a street or any public space. A space to express herself without being regarded as non compos mentis, really testing her bodies boundaries whilst draining the mundane from the realm of being. Boliver’s frequent references to sex are simply due to her interest in the iron curtain and expressing the forbidden’s severity. If it weren’t sex that were censored she would investigate something else that was.’ (Williams, 2014)
Artist As Curator 