Karlo Andrei Ibarra

Lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Artist statement

Born and raised in Puerto Rico Ibarra studied painting in Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico. For over 15 years I work with the concept of “repair” in my artistic practice. It allows me to investigate the dialectic between destruction and repair, in which repair is understood as a way of cultural resistance as well as a means for a society or a subject to reappropriate their history and identity. On the other hand, I am interested in investigating aspects about our historical and colonial framework that affects in the past that we were in the present that we are and in the future that we will be. I employ a wide variety of media that refer to conceptual art and mass media while addressing issues of social, political, cultural and geographic boundaries. My practice relies on social and political cognitions gathered from personal investigations, which draw correlations between individual and national identities and make larger observations respective to a global community.

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