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holds a central place in my creative process: it is both a sensory and symbolic vibration, an emotional language that runs through my entire body of work
MY BIOGRAPHIE
I was born in Colombia in 1986, into a family where art, music, fashion, technology, design, and a deep connection to nature were interwoven. A self-taught painter grandmother taught me to see through color; a textile designer aunt, at her loom, passed on the value of materiality and visual expression; a father immersed in emerging digital technologies introduced me to that universe and sparked my first experiments in Paint; and a grandfather, an agronomist, whose relationship with plants awakened my early affinity with organic forms and natural cycles.
This intersection of disciplines and sensibilities awakened in me a curious, open, and deeply aesthetic perspective.
Me, aged 4
From a young age, I felt the urge to express myself through color, clothing, and objects. I altered garments, transformed materials, and drew self-portraits as a quiet form of exploration. These visual, intimate, and everyday practices became my first creative language.
My training in fine arts and design led me to work in museography, visual communication, and illustration in Colombia. Since 2014, I’ve been based in Paris, where I have deepened my practice in textile design, creating collections for an international audience and sharing knowledge in educational settings. Over the years, I’ve lived and traveled in different parts of the world, which has profoundly expanded my perspective. My identity is shaped not by borders, but by the multiplicity of places, cultures, and encounters I’ve lived through. It is within that intercultural space that I find meaning for my life and my work.
Artist residency at Luna Studio–Gallery, Barcelona (Spain), 2019
Today, I develop artistic projects, workshops, and commission services through a perspective that celebrates imperfection, sensitivity, and transformation.
My works offer a space for observation, reinterpretation, and new ways of inhabiting the intimate and the collective.
Working at my studio in Paris. 2025 . Photo © Felipe García
MY PRACTICE
Color holds a central place in my creative process: it is both a sensory and symbolic vibration, an emotional language that runs through all of my work. Capable of revealing inner states, tensions, and harmonies, color emerges from a meticulous search for affective resonances, contrasts, and nuances that evoke the invisible, invite contemplation, and construct a narrative of transformation. Its interaction with light, layering, and materials—whether in drawing, painting, collage, embroidery, or digital processes—allows me to develop an aesthetic that combines sensitivity with narrative depth.
I work through a visual language that revolves around nature, archetypal symbols, and open narrative structures. Flowers—consistently present in my work—function as living metaphors of the bond between the intimate and the collective. I was born in Colombia, a country deeply connected to biodiversity, and from that origin I recontextualize botanical elements to explore relationships between territories, heritages, and hybridizations.
Moments before the open studio, 2024
Photo © Francesca Avanzinelli
The female body—fragmented, symbolic, at times self-referential—becomes a site where tensions emerge between the visible and the invisible, the ancestral and the contemporary.
Artist residency at Luna Studio–Gallery, Barcelona (Spain), 2019. Photo © Antonio Amador
The intercultural dimension appears as one of the layers that expands my way of observing, composing, and meaning-making. Each work is an allegory of inner states and a space where those dualities meet, are rewritten, or transformed.
In 2020, an accident that nearly caused me to lose the use of my right arm and hand profoundly transformed the way I create. Since then, the gesture of repair has become one of the foundations of my practice: it is not only about restoring form, but about preserving, reconstructing, and infusing memory with new meaning. Gestures such as scribbling, spilling, tearing—and their mirror gestures: mending, stitching, repairing—allow me to capture the essence of contrasting sensations and construct narratives that oscillate between rupture and balance.
Over time, this process of physical and emotional transformation opened a new dimension within me: the need to share and transmit. Teaching thus became an organic extension of my artistic practice. Creating alongside others, accompanying processes, opening sensitive territories—this, too, is a way of continuing to create.
Exhibition: Les Cercles Illusoires, Paris, 2024. Photo © Francesca Avanzinelli
