Artist Statement
Use as few elements as possible. Present clearly defined actions to enhance real or suggested performativity.
Proximity—literal, figurative—increases tension and engagement.
Vulnerability is a strength.
Address Venezuela’s historical circumstances by deconstructing the social, political and economic fabrics.
Show the paradoxes of economic value, through everyday social dynamics.
Subvert the burden of Catholicism’s culture of self-sacrifice and martyrdom.
Reflect on the awareness of our own death, as a path to make sense out of existence.
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- Rigor Mortis 100 X 104cms. Caracas,Venezuela. 2015. Based on the performance art series Rigor Mortis. I use a tourniquet to let one of my arms gradually lose color and temperature.
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- Vanitas, Caracas, 2016. Visual rendition of the Bible section Ecclesiastes 1:2-4. What is the real worth of life, knowledge and beauty?
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- Fisting 115 X 89 cm Caracas, 2013. symbolically subvert the domination system that is implemented through free chicken in my country.
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- Ecce Homo Performance Chicago,2013. 4hs. Works almost as an installation. The audience engages with the piece as a finding that suggests diverse potential actions, including burning the artist alive.
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- ICHTHYS V: Transubstantiation Breda 2015. Sticking scales on my face. The fish is a Christian symbol. I question the moral models imposed by religion and traditions, embedded in our culture.
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- Transubstantiation II 2015. Transubstantiation is the mystical process in which the wine and the bread turn into the blood and the flesh of Christ. I make a “crown of thorns” our of wire hangers.
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- Relief. Chicago 2018.I use emergency blankets to make a bowl in my abdomen.I ask the participants to make arepa dough in it by mixing corn flour with water I poured over my body.We eat the arepas.
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- ICHTHYS Bunkbed Chicago 2017. I explore religious culture embedded in family values as a result of parenting. I use Catholic symbols and other related to domesticity.
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- Mar Picado, Haina, 2009. By giving free sardines cans with instructional performances to the local population, I explored the relevance of art when framed in harsh economic conditions.
