March is spring time and spring has sprung. We have exciting news to share with you Uniarte Online Residency has been extended for another week and we are now open for all Caribbean artists from different disciplines to apply and explore this year’s main theme: ‘In search of what is not one’s own is a constant […]
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The Act… Prologue Going into this project, there was a bit of uncertainty and anxiousness felt on my part. I felt this sense of pressure, a pressure put on myself to be prepared for every curve ball that would come my way while creating these pieces. I already knew what I wanted to explore and […]
The proposal submitted to the Uniarte 6+ Open Call was to create a social engagement online using a project I had just created in July 2021 called ‘The Personal Storytelling Tool #1’. Social engagements are a new direction in my art practice developed during the lockdown period to create a more sustainable, impactful, authentic, collaborative […]
In the Caribbean cosmogony, many fables and beliefs use metaphors to find a sense of purpose in order to solve a historical identity crisis, in a region with cultural gaps and diverse influences, which come as a consequence of colonialism. This short essay is a ‘portfolio’ about my process during 2 months of artistic creation […]
I am an Afro caribbean, mixed media artist born in Curacao. My work is usually a mix between conceptualism and spirituality. My projects allow us to experience the theme space in different perceptions. The techniques and materials I use as an artist are my personal mediums in the fulfillment of my concepts. The variety of […]
Vision board shortfilm Manchá INTRODUKSHON E blòg aki ta representá mi sketchbook habrí , kaminda mi ta kompartí mi skètsnan, tekstonan, investigashon, kòmbersashonnan i trabounan ku lo hiba mi na e shortfilm ku mi ke traha ,yamá ‘Manchá’ . Den e blòg aki lo mi krea un struktura pa mi mes i purba hasi sentido […]
The Personal Storytelling Tool Workshop is an online event to introduce a social engagement tool as well as building a practice with it. The ‘tool’ here is a card deck which can be used for self-inquiry and self-discovery. The cards use imagery from the studio practice of Oneika Russell, Mafalda Mondestin, Ludgi Savon and Phillip […]
Nelson González: Between two Waters by Victor Fuenmayor With the conception of Between Two Waters, artist Nelson González exposes an understanding of the intercultural procedures that find themselves at the core of artistic contemporaneity. Of being part of the process of creation. By the use of themes found in the same or different cultures, new artistic […]
I got an invitation in 2010 By Avantia Damberg I moved to Amsterdam in 2002 as I went to study there at the Gerrit Rietveld art academy. In 2007 I graduated and continued living in Amsterdam for another 5 years to gain some experience as an artist. I got an invitation by Uniarte […]