I'm interested in how historical hierachies inform and condition current identities, internalized and then regurgitated by it.

Living between the United States and the Dominican Republic (and having lived in Belguim) has made me aware of my own difference and subjectivity depending on context. Reflecting on this, my work has transitioned from identity in an intimate manner to examining larger transnational and transcultural exchanges.

My current body of work focuses on the construction of the female subject in relation to nature and landscape in a "tropical" context, shaped by a foreign Gaze that demands leisure and pleasure. Like nature, femininity has been imagined and represented throughout history as idealized, tamed, conquered / colonized and exoticized. I'm currently revising existing cultural products that engage in this form of representation and challenging them through my work.

My process is an on-going exploration across media: a painting or a sculpture might be a departing point for a video or a performance, and they might all merge into a final piece or develop inpedendently. The constant in my work is the presence of the body and the interest in creating distinct power positions with it, often contradictory but operating simultaneously. To naviigate binaries in search of in-betweenness, tying to both fulfill and sabotage expectations at once.