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Guadalupe Vargas, 2022
Paper Bags, Acrylic paint, Wire, Thread, Graphite
3’x7.5’
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Untitled (I’ve been here before), 2021
Discarded cereal box, graphite
20” x 13”
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Untitled (Planes and Portal), 2021 (Installation view)
Discarded fabric, Natural pigments (pomegranate and beets), Acrylic Paint, Ink, Cotton string
Dimensions variable
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“There’s spirits everywhere”, 2021
Discarded cereal box, india ink
7”x10”
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Ranas, 2022
Sculpture installation with sound
Found wood, discarded cardboard, apoxie clay, acrylic paint, mirrored glass, sound
2’x2’x10”
How can we heal our interpersonal, social and environmental relations?
I engage this question through exploring consciousness of interconnectivity between human, non-human, more-than human beings on shared land.
In the face of environmental crisis and societal division, learning care is a driving force in my work. Through enacting care, I mend these relations through material transformation.
I engage with healing intimately- starting with the personal so that I can repair relations to my community and environments.
These explorations reckon with my body, questions of spirituality, childhood wounds, generational traumas and rediscovering disconnections to land. I work with drag transformation, family archives, fantastical illustration and sculpture using discarded material.
I intend to craft an environment where these works are in dialogue with each other. Through this meditative space, I request collective presence, self-relationality and openness.
I look towards transformative justice work, queer club spaces, guerilla gardens, decolonial practices, mutual aid organisation, sites of protest, and concerts. I seek to extend these moments of collective presence.
Through my admiration of nature, with all its fractility and metaphysical mystery, I believe exploring the personal opens portals to something past individualism, towards a collective being.