Rockella
residency
During the residency
I worked with human emotions, specially on heartbreak, heart hurt,
heart dead.
Mixing poetry and abstract paintings.
Rockella Studio Program, Brooklyn, ny / August-September 2023
I titled this series: 'You Told Me That Love Doesn’t Hurt', mixing painting with text, using each painting’s title to reference specific poems or states. It was a dialogue, an exorcism, to dramatize these feelings and create a narrative between vulnerability and self-awareness.
During the residency, I produced hundreds of pages of typewritten poems, diary notes, and thoughts. I incorporated these writings into performances, painting phrases on my body and public spaces.
I recorded myself reading poetry and excerpts from my diary, creating video and audio works to explore different ways of delivering poetry. I keep developing this work, started during the residency, in my present.
Video still 'I'm stuck in this body' 2023
