Artist Statement
My work uses the representation of the body as an instrument of communication. It seeks to translate visually, my experiences, emotions and ideas from the confrontation and construction of my identity crossed by gender, race and decolonization concerns.
Since the beginning of my artistic practice, my work has developed from the intimacy of my body, as well as the intimacy of my thoughts and way of understanding life. I seek in my own recognition to understand not only my own identity but also the identity of my mother and ancestors.
This process is by no means easy, the fact of confronting oneself means not only to face the things we often do not want to see but also to face society and the spaces in which we live in the most personal way possible.
My work is crossed by my race, my color, by the shape of my face, by the color and length of my hair, which is a symbol of resistance against colonialism and of love for what it means to me and to others.
Although the aesthetics of my work can be considered dark and particular, it is because I find harmony and beauty in the things that we usually relate to the strange and mundane of life, I find balance in them, and it is somehow the rhythm with which I move.