Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

Publication Title

Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies

Volume

10

Issue

1

First Page

70

Last Page

93

Abstract

I am currently creating a visual novel comprised of paintings, sculptures and mixed media that together and in different voices weave a synchronicity of dialogues, passages, punctuations, and silences about hybridity and cultural ownership. It is a multi-narrative novel about cultural memory, migration and the pursuit of the American dream. These images are anchored in Minimalism as a dominant ideological umbrella. They are then intertwined, intersected, to make narratives that describe lives of spiritual and physical transit.

Anchored in feminism, my art is informed by North and South American cultural forms that fuse and cross-pollinate and smash together. My practice is a bicultural and trans-cultural experience; it speaks of difference, of opposites. Having grown up in Colombia and having migrated to the US as an adult. I make art in two languages about the curious and intense experience of physically having moved, yet having a piece of myself remaining rooted in Colombia. I create visual expressions of that hybridy and sychretism that has taken place since the conquest of the Americas and that gets replicated in the migration experience.

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