I am a US based artist from Santa Clara, Cuba, and I work with textiles and fibers to create installations that materialize psychological landscapes of nostalgia and remembrance. I earned a BFA and a BA in Sculpture and Art History from Jacksonville University in Florida, and have participated in residencies at the New York Academy of Fine Arts, the Studios at MASS MoCA and WOC Residency. My work has been exhibited at The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, the Parachute Factory, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Field Projects, The Sculptors Alliance, etc., and I currently live in Lexington, Kentucky, where I am expected to earn an MFA in Visual Studies this spring at the University of Kentucky.

My work materializes and translates real and psychological landscapes, investigating identity, personal and collective memory, as well as belief systems and transculturation processes. Through textiles, I study the complexities of identity-building as a Cuban-born woman touched by displacement, migration, and transculturation. Feeding from the cultural, aesthetic and natural environment in which I reside, I use layers in my work to obscure individual objects and textiles, complicating and entangling embedded histories beyond recognition.

Via knotting, weaving, ropemaking, wrapping and other accumulative methods, my sculptures explore the role and definition of textiles in today’s world, focusing on the woven plane as a second skin, a weather-protective and complex reconfiguration of material, ideas, and memories. Manifested in organic, female and generative forms, my work acts as an offering, and act of sharing and expressing an identity that is multilingual, abstract and obscured, yet nuanced and familiar, as is the process of living in liminality. Soft and malleable yet playful and colorful, I am crafting a visual language where verbal communication has been rendered ineffective to communicate the multiplicity of identities within all of us.