Statement
I have been exploring the relationship between my female body and the territory I inhabit. I have lived in the countryside, in the mountains near Bogotá, for the past few years. In 2021, I became a mother for the first time, ultimately shifting my perspective. My work began to delve into the crevices, the light and the darkness, the human and the mammal. I explored the animalistic, wild, and raw realities of childbirth, breastfeeding, bleeding, being a vessel for new life, and the identity shifts that come with motherhood.
During this time, I realized all of my previous work had led me to this point. For over a decade, I have immersed myself in animalistic and often dreamlike universes, examining the relationships we are part of and develop as humans. I have also been building my mythologies through the narrative images I create. I depict a parallel reality to my lived experience, constantly shifting according to the life stage and archetypes I embody.
Additionally, I have a live oil painting portrait project that began in 2014, where the sitter and I co-create a situation and setting in which they are portrayed as we talk and get to know each other on a deeper level. These spaces are created as a resistance to the fast pace of contemporary life, providing a space for physical presence and care. During the pandemic in 2020, this project shifted to a digital format, using video calls in real-time and color pencils as my medium for a faster image rendering. This relational approach, based on encounters and conversation, is still ongoing and, inevitably, intertwines with my other projects.
Recently, I have become more interested in using raw and organic materials such as natural dyes and cotton fabrics. Unlike my previous work, this has led me to explore ways of inhabiting space in a non-purely two-dimensional manner. It is a never-ending exploration, and it is always exciting to dig deeper and discover new ways of being and creating in the artistic realm.
BIO
(b. 1989, Bogotá, Colombia) Studied Visual Arts at Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá before completing an MFA at KASK School of Arts. She then participated in a two-year art residency at HISK in Ghent. In 2016, she was a resident artist at La Escocesa in Barcelona as part of an exchange program with HISK.
Between 2017 and 2018, she lived a nomadic life, working and traveling without a permanent studio, except for a three-month residency at Mayeur Projects in Las Vegas, New Mexico. In 2019, she returned to Colombia and began teaching painting at Universidad Javeriana, a position she held for three years. Since 2021, she has been living and working on the outskirts of Bogotá, where her daughter was born in the same year.
Her work continues to evolve in parallel with her own lived experiences.
Some of her solo exhibitions include As Long as We Have Each Other (Galleria LaVeronica, Modica, Italy, 2022), Maybe I Am a Lost Soul, But I Like This Place (Mayeur Projects, Las Vegas, US, 2018), People in the Room (Island, Brussels, BE, 2017), Domestic Wildlife (Mieke Van Shaijk Gallery, Den Bosch, NL, 2016), and Keep My Treasures Where I Can See Them (Galleria LaVeronica, Modica, IT, 2016).
Selected group exhibitions include Matrilinaje (Policroma Gallery, Medellín, CO, 2024), Papa Ragazze (Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, RO, 2020), I Like What I See and How It Makes Me Feel (Hollybush Gardens, London, UK, 2016), and Balls & Glory (Rodolphe Janssen Gallery, Brussels, BE, 2016).
