I am a multidisciplinary artist–born & raised in Puerto Rico–who investigates the relationship between materiality & the female body through intervened photography, collage & performance art.
In my practice, I explore the insecurities & anger that I & other women experience due to the cultural norms of family, religion, & macho society. In my self-portraiture, I write my personal stories related to emotions of pain, vulnerability, independence, & self-realization by scraping them into the emulsion of my photographic prints using sharp tools, much like the process of creating a linoleum.
This aggressive & soothing process of joining image and text as one, while exploring different handwriting styles; is a direct influence from my calligrapher and painter Mother.
These images are confessional, raw, crude, & sometimes transgressive for a conservative society that has historically controlled women's expression. They draw parallels between the violence that men have exercised over women utilizing the state's violence & other power structures over marginalized citizens.
Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Visual & Performing Arts School of Syracuse University in 2006. A Master in Documentary Photography from EFTI School of Photography in Madrid in 2008. A Masters in Fine Arts from the International Center of Photography - Bard College in New York in 2014.
In 2013, scholarship from La Fondation de France to study at the Ecole Superiore de la Photographie in Arles, France.
