yanira collado

Lives and works in Miami, Fl and the Dominican Republic

Artist statement

I am a multimedia artist working with site specific installations that encompass painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, movement and audio. My practice considers concepts that allude to the restoration of histories once muted due to natural and human interventions such as the paradoxes in time and the disruption of indigenous cultures. These perceptions are summoned through construction materials, reclaimed literary texts, wood, concrete, textiles, iron, and drywall. Materials with inherent geographic histories, processes and economies that imply varying degrees of ritual, cultural values, traditions, personalized and public memory. My work assembles a visual language that reconciles the process in which the history of this information is recorded, stored, and retrieved. This interest in the embedded narrative of materials has led me to an expansive focus on textiles and Architecture. Illuminating their complexed history and culture.

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