Luciana Gomez

Lives and works in Puerto Rico

Artist statement

Artist Statement My practice begins with drawing and with an ongoing investigation of the body as a container of liquid memory. Through painting, drawing, textiles, sculpture, and installation, I explore the relationships between body, landscape, memory, and transformation. Water appears in my work not only as an image, but also as a methodology. Swimming, immersion, observing changes in light, currents, depth, and the adaptation of perception have become ways of thinking through and producing the work. I am particularly interested in thresholds: those moments when we are no longer what we were, but do not yet know what we are becoming. My experience of migration between Argentina, Brazil, and Puerto Rico also runs through this investigation. Landscape does not function as a background, but as something that enters the body and transforms it. Memories, architectures, organic forms, fragments of writing, and lived or imagined scenes coexist within the same surface, forming unstable cartographies where different spaces and temporalities overlap. My process develops through drawing, repetition, layering, distortion, covering, and revealing. In recent years, this language has expanded beyond the conventional surface of painting into fabric, domestic textiles, ceramics, found materials, and natural elements, giving rise to sculptural forms and installations. I am interested in what happens when an image can behave like a skin, when an object acquires a bodily presence, or when...

Artwork