The Body We Are: A Conversation with Jacobo Alonso
- Mariela Saad
- Dec 26, 2025
- 2 min read
In contemporary art, the body is often treated as image or symbol. For Mexican artist Jacobo Alonso, the body is something more immediate and unresolved, a material presence that we inhabit daily, yet rarely acknowledge as an object in itself.
Ahead of his exhibition The Situated Body: Reconfiguring the Symbolic, on view in January at the Maitland Art Center, we spoke with Alonso about material, process, and what it means to confront the body as both subject and substance.
SoTA: What does the idea of “the situated body” mean to you?
Jacobo Alonso:In our daily lives, we are accustomed to coexisting with other bodies and with our own body to such an extent that we rarely think of it as a presence, as something without identity, as an object. This exhibition proposes a body that we also are, but do not usually recognize.
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