Detail View: Art and Art History Student Work:

Image File Name: 
vrc_20210614_009
Image Record ID: 
aahi0022264
Work Title (display): 
Un País Olvidado: Reliquias de Vigencia (Forgotten Country: Relics of Agency)
Image Title: 
detail view
Work Description: 
Artist statement (excerpts relevant to thesis work): I was born in Venezuela and partially raised in Florida. I am an interdisciplinary artist with a penchant for dense, fantastical landscapes featuring abstraction, light, music, and sound design. My work reflects my own experiences of memory, place, land, and home. I utilize a visual language that depicts mythological structures that speak to present hybrid identities. I use organic materials, sculptural elements, and printmaking techniques to create animations that represent transformation and cycles of impermanence. My content has historic roots in anticolonial movements that are tied to international surrealism and magical realism, particularly from South America and the Caribbean. My practice relates materiality to history and cultural context, especially regarding the storytelling and the physicality of place... // ...In spring break of 2019, I travelled to Colombia to teach and make art with the community. Witnessing displaced immigrants from Venezuela impacted me greatly, led me to collaborate with displaced immigrants for my thesis work.
Work Dates (display): 
2021
Work Dates type: 
creation
Work Creator (display): 
Alejandra Abad (Venezuelan, born 1984)
Work Creator gender: 
female
Work Creator notes (display): 
Written thesis: https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/47429b03r
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display): 
2021 MFA exhibition, Art and Art History
Work Creator memberOf: 
IMAP (Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices) student, Art and Art History, CU Boulder
Work Creator memberOf notes: 
TO BE DELETED WHEN ALL IMAP STUDENTS INCLUDE SUB-AREA AFFILIATIONS
Work Subject: 
Venezuela (nation)
Work Subject: 
diasporas (migrations)
Work Subject: 
colonialism
Work Subject: 
oral history (discipline)
Work Subject: 
culture
Work Subject: 
immigration
Work Subject: 
folklore (culture-related concept)
Work Subject: 
mythologies (religious concept)
Work Worktype: 
video art
Work Worktype: 
installations (visual works)
Work Category (VRC classification): 
video
Work Category (VRC classification): 
sculptures and installations
Work Material and Technique (display): 
center projection, two side projections onto laser cut paper relics; recycled glass jars, containers, water bottles, coffee, onotto seeds, banana leaves, heliconias, palm trees, coffee beans, food dye (black, blue, red), water, mirrors, paper, burlap, cacao seeds, corn flour, harina pan, salt, glass diamonds, rocks, corn oil, sugar cane
Work Measurements (display): 
room dimensions: 13 ft (H) x 20 ft (W) x 26 ft (D)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name: 
University of Colorado Art Museum
Work Location (Repository or Site) role: 
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name: 
Boulder, Colorado
Image Rights (display): 
© Alejandra Abad
Work Rights (display): 
© Alejandra Abad
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Holding Institution: 
University of Colorado Boulder
Collection: 
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
Subcollection: 
Art and Art History Student Work Archive
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