Shelter

As a Mexican artist who has Arab blood and American nationality based in Toronto, interpreting the social and political structures in which I’m inscribed, leads me to problematize the power dynamics I encounter.

Having experimented censorship in different social environments, I understand vulnerability can often times be found in the skin we inhabit.

With energetical ties to different places in the world, I find myself reminiscing and coming in contact with the past or the digital every day across borders through social media.

This constant disruption of time and space incorporates these digital environments to my experience of the every day, excluding the sense of touch.. the resulting interaction of my body with different expressions of myself, turns synthetic.

The fragmented women in my recent body of work find themselves smoothed and elongated, slightly deformed. The female figures in my paintings explore the concept of “Shelter” whether that is a physical space or an emotional place in our heads - in relation to the current enervating climate of the world. 

1) A Room on Sherbourne
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
8x4ft
2019

2) Una Montaña Se Despierta
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
4x4ft
2019

3) Pause
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
5x3ft
2020

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Submitted by Paulina Padilla.