Multimedia art installation inpired by Glen Ligon’s artwork and the civil rights movement, co-created workshop with two other artists and two Middle School classes, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (2017)

A REVISION OF MEMORY

Research Project in European Museums & Houston, Texas  (2002-2004) 

Mixed media paintings depicting part female bodies / part machine trying to escape canvas frames

REGENERATION (2003)

Multimedia door design inspired by Emily Dickinkinson’s poem “My business is circumference.” Fall Creek fundraising event for Opening Doors women’s shelter, Houston, Texas  Detail : using rain to paint

A REVISION OF MEMORY III (2017) 

Multimedia art installation composed of drawings, polaroid images, chairs, cyanotype photographs in conversation with original poetry, US National Writers Program, The Heart of Texas Teaching Composition Workshop, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

UNDERTIDE emerged from a community outreach during an artist residency in Assilah, Morocco. This co-created in-situ Polaroid installation was part of the group exhibition From Here with Love which took place in Assilah, Morocco during the Summer of 2014

Text Excerpt:

Facing the low tide ocean, I stood in awe as krill brushed my fingers. A moment earlier, a boy had poured a handful of small crustaceans in my hands and urged me to run to the beach and release them into the ocean. 

It all had started with a photograph. When I first met that boy, I took his portrait. When I handed it to him, he started rolling in the sand with joy, holding tight to the Polaroid while it was still developing. I could see the spark of discovery in his eyes as the latent image started revealing itself. Speechless revelations

I used different media to classify and display my grandfather’s photographic archives spanning  early 20th century, WWII, and his life in the DDR and mixed it with materials documenting my father’s escape from the DDR and immigration to the US,  juxtaposing it with my own photographic cartographies. The result was a multigenerational exploration of memory, identity, and place. 

This city cartography emerged from the Transformative Landscape Photography Workshop with Andrea Botto during the Singapore International Festival in 2013. Using walking as creative ethnography, I created a sequence of moments in public spaces. I especially sought to capture the symbiotic relationship between natural and manmade presence in the City of Singapore and chose to center my inquiry on the ubiquitous presence of trees. Conducting research at the local Historical Archive helped in the framing of these transformative landscapes. I

La Montaña que devora a los hombres, Potosí, Bolivia (2008-2011)

El Cerro Rico de Potosí is a vast and desolate territory. People move across piles of stones and leftover ore. They make their way over the mountain daily seeking to earn a living. They live, play, work and die there.

With this project, the artist wanted to show this mountain in a descriptive way, including encounters with miners and mine guardians. Here she proposes a sample of their daily confrontations with devastated nature due to human exploitation.

DONXING is an intimate inquiry of private spaces, Haerbin, China (2013)

Texte en français:

Cette série d’images met a l’avance la vie a l’intérieur de maisons pendant un séjour à Donxing.

La nouvelle an chinoise est un événtment de rencontre ou les familles se retrouve et fête la nouvelle saison. À l’abri de la révolution économique actuelle, on découvre des rélations interpersonnelles et de liens de famille. Tout à partir d’une rencontre avec une fille appellée Bella.

Series of color portraits taken in Cochabamba and Potosi, Bolivia on assignment for Demain nos enfants (F) and Voix Libres (CH)

Revision of Memory II, Premià de Mar, Barcelona

In-situ video installation produced in conversation with Museum Van Loon Archive, partially funded by FOAM Artist Residency grant and exhibited at Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2011) 

UNTERWEGS is a tapestry of moments that constitite a personal cartography in places of origin, namely Barcelona, Spain - Berlin, Germany (2007-2009)