Andina Marie Osorio

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Artist statement

Andina Marie Osorio’s practice utilizes photography and image based installations to examine the genealogical analogies of domestic space and lineage in relation to her Puerto Rican heritage and her queer identity. Her installations utilize ephemera and materials to evoke incidental memories and activate ancestral energies rooted in the feminine domestic setting. Her interior photographs of domestic spaces transform into pictorial collages that question how to make a portrait without a physical body. Osorio's perception of time underscores the significance of documenting domestic spaces before the onset of grief, serving as a social document that highlights the often invisible domestic labor performed by women. Utilizing self-portraiture, archival family photographs, installation, appropriation, and soft sculptures, Osorio focuses on the women of her family being used as vessels to explore matriarchal roles that play into race, sexuality and women’s history. Appropriation of photographs as objects allows for familial references while invoking a common consciousness of domesticity among viewers. Osorio's portraits reflect her understanding of queerness, drawing from personal experiences of voyeurism and the recreation of memorable performances or gestures she seeks to immortalize. Through still life, the gaze, and environmental portraits, she captures the mundane yet decisive moments while also observing and engaging with her community. Her work offers both introspection...

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