Aurea Aguilar

Aurea Aguilar (born September 1943) is a Mexican multimedia visual artist whose work has been recognized with membership in Mexico's Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.

Life Aguilar was born in Mexico City, the second child of Celia Ferrer and César Aguirre. Her mother was a journalist, writer and self-taught painter. Her father was a lawyer and writer. Since childhood, she had an interest in Mexican culture and artistic expression, studying traditional Mexican folk dance and maintaining interest in literature and music as well as art.

Artistry Her art is strongly influenced by human suffering, physical, mental and emotional, to which she is sensitive.

Aguilar's imagery is derived from various eras of Mexico's history, especially the syncretism of pre Hispanic and Catholic religious beliefs as they affect the country's modern culture. Dominant elements include the human heart, the human hand, skulls and crosses. In Ausencias y presencias, one of the pieces is an urn she designed in which her own remains lie. She has stated that the creation of pieces have a cathartic effect.