GABRIELA VAINSENCHER

Artist Statement

My interdisciplinary practice includes video, sculpture and photography, and is grounded in an exploration of the processes involved in the formation of identity, be they physical, biographical, or political. I experiment with materials and languages and use images and objects as metaphors. My sculptures often become a proxy for the self as they explore the parallels between how materials and personhood are formed. I am an immigrant twice-over and the tri-lingual daughter of a psychoanalyst and a translator, this means that I am always translating and interpreting, while also keenly aware of the limitations of those processes.