Carolina Aranibar-Fernandez
“I create installations, performances and sculptural objects that weave multiple mediums including fabric, ceramics, video, sound and objects built with the material as concept. My research and art practice is rooted in Indigenous epistemologies which center women’s knowledge and generational wisdom. I am specifically interested in the ways that historical and contemporary forms of slave labor have disrupted these ways of understanding through displacement, dispossession, and extractive trade. My interest in trade connects to the ongoing global colonization of people and lands, and therefore, I investigate the ways that resources through capitalism become weapons of oppression. I take as my site of investigation the materiality, and utilize materials that have a history of extraction and exploitation to create the work around the conceptual meaning of the materiality. Borders are an interest that I explore in my practice--the visible and invisible as social constructs, and structures of power. I research trade as capital flow and displacement of bodies in the different borders; on the moving oceans and in land.”
Carolina Aranibar-Fernandez, visual artist born and raised in La Paz- Bolivia, currently lives and works in Arizona, U.S. Her practice addresses concerns of displacement, privatization of land, exploitation on natural resources, environmental issues, and the invisible-exploited labor that supplies global trade. From Imperialism to colonialism, and now capitalism.
Received an M.F.A from Virginia Commonwealth University and a B.F.A from the Kansas City Art Institute. Aranibar-Fernandez was the 2019 – 2020 Binational Arts resident in Arizona (US) and Sonora (MX). Received the 2018-2019 Projecting All Voices Fellowship at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Recipient of the 2016-2017 Fellowship at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. And the 2020 –2021 Race, Art, & Democracy Fellow at the Center of Study of Race and Democracy at ASU.
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Fabric
12 x 15 inches, Framed
2021