“Domesticated Tongue”
Flowered fabric, embroidering and projection of slide
Dimensions: 400 cm x 240 cm x 200 cm
Year: 2006-2009
" Domesticated Tongue" details
" Domesticated Tongue" details
“Los Mojados”
33 shirt sleeves and projection of water
Dimensions: 340 cm x 20 cm x 40 cm.
Dimensions: 340 cm x 20 cm x 40 cm.
Year: 2007-2009
“Los Mojados”. Detail
“Los Mojados”. Detail
“Fabric-ation of a Body”
Fabric, video projection and still projection
Dimensions: 300 cm x 400 cm x 14 cm
Year: 2007-2009
“Fabric-ation of a Body”. Detail
“Fabric-ation of a Body”. Detail
“Bodies in Transit” may recall experiences of cultural transition and identity issues. The conceptual content of this body of artwork is supported on mythical elements and cultural and visual theory debates concerning identities in transit. Similarly, along the consolidation of this artwork I have been inspired on the word diasporas which meaning may allude to images of dispersion, dislocation, and a metaphorical re-construction of home.
During the studio practice I have found a particular interest on the usage of fabric as a formal element to create bodily human presences that depict a fabricated skin onto which I can project images of real spaces taken from border zones. This approach intends to reflect the cultural fabrication that an immigrant experiences while adapting to a different culture or the so called trans-culturation process. Hereby the sculptural presences (fabric busts, half fabric body, and fabric shirt sleeves) metaphorically evoke dis-location and a possibility of re-territorializing.
Through the series of artworks “Bodies in Transit” I have encountered a possible space to unfold the fabric that composes my hybrid Latin American identity and the sentiments that have arose from study as an immigrant in Australia. I refer to the sentiment of being divided, cast out from home and fragmented by a different language.
“Bodies in Transit” has been inspired on some artistic movements, such as the border art workshop / taller de arte fronterizo and the In-site project. Their artwork straddles between political and mythical ideas, and I consider that these elements have influenced my artwork. Similarly the work of the artists Helen Escobedo, Ernesto Neto, Hossein Valamanesh and Magdalena Abakanowicz whose works evoke the construction of a new territory and a human presence as a matrix for re-invention of identity.
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