DANIELA VARGAS VICTORIA

Colombian visual artist graduated from the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts (Cali-Colombia), with previous training in the field of music (piano and violin) from an early age. Graduated from a master’s degree in Artistic Production and Research with a specialization in Intermediate Art and Contexts at the University of Barcelona, ​​thanks to a Scholarship awarded by the Bank of the Republic of Colombia within the “Young Talents 2017” program. She is currently part of the “Nudo” Collective where she works as an artist and cultural manager. He currently lives and resides between Colombia and the United States.

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STATEMENT

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The questioning and constant reflection as lucid acts of conscience favor, in the first instance, a form of self-critical thought evidenced by means and through art. Speculation about the multiple and imprecise paradigms of love, are a source of inspiration to create, taking as a reference experiences of their own and others that revolve around affections, their causes, developments, speculations and ramblings. Projections, desires, ideologies, and beliefs rooted in a morality that is usually corrupted and fails. Love and falling in love from the spiritual and the carnal in all its forms and dispositions, are raw material to continue speculating before imposed socio-cultural structures that inhabit the collective imagination.

 

The desire for provocation and the aesthetic experience are constants that are usually articulated in techniques such as video, sculpture, and installation. The resignification of objects and the performative power of the word in its ambiguities and paradoxes, are part of a primary interest that continually seduces me as an existential need to react to a system of preconceived languages ​​and molds.

 

Love as an infinite and extensive notion is reborn to the extent that I define it through experience.

His hypotheses, conclusions and dialogues undoubtedly determine what I call my work.