artist statement
Natalia raises questions that explore the pretexts behind the obsessive-compulsive behaviors that surround the female gender, using self-referential experience as a departure point for her artistic practice. Concepts behind her work are born from a series of reflections based on everyday life: being a woman growing up with obsessions and concerns regarding the human body, perfection, age, marriage, maternity, home, dwelling, nesting, and love—all profoundly interlaced with notes about daily acts, personal experiences, and traces of her memory.
She talks about the human condition—its fragility and simultaneous strength, its duality—and explores the possibilities of intimacy to reveal the profound poetic feeling by means of the acceptance of vulnerability. For her, the body is a natural place where she engraves her perceptions. The need of using a self-portrait develops into portraits of her intimate circle of friends that has become her shelter, her refuge—her HOME.
This work emerges and is then developed in photography and performance as the usual initial vehicle of her creative process. From these media, her work evolves into painting, drawing, etching, and mixed media.
Her most recent work HOGAR[es] | HOME[is] reflects the intimate space that she inhabits and calls “home.” A home that evolves, transforms, modifies, constructs, and deconstructs among our existence. A home that serves as a reflection of her most intimate condition. On her observations in relation to house - home, she plays with the house as a form that repeats and differentiates itself creating endless possibilities.
Photo by Lorena Gutiérrez