Who We Are

Saloneras/Women’s Salon is based in Los Angeles and Mexico City. The group came together in 2018 out of a desire for dialogue among women in the arts. Saloneras is a space where projects are generated through research and the sharing of creative processes. The essential part of the collective exercise is the path traveled while interchanging and strengthening the bonds within the group. The intention is that through engagement with the unconscious and exploring the realm of symbolic language, the Saloneras come together to create avenues for expression of once subverted self-expression, inviting women’s natural curiosity and care.

The Los Angeles group was founded in September 2018 by Mercedes Gertz and Alma Ruiz, and the Mexico group was founded shortly after by Haydeé Rovirosa, Karen Cordero and Mercedes Gertz inspired by the Salonistas in Paris out of the need to create alternative space for women in the arts. Members include an international collective of women artists, writers, filmmakers, depth psychologists, mythologists, and curators. Meetings focus on a cyclical project with a collective theme built through research, dialog, and supportive process-sharing meetings with the intention of constructing something out of our diverse and collective experience through relational art practices. The essential is not the final project—but the path traveled through the strengthening of the bonds between the women in the group.