Unveiling minds
Unveiling minds 2006 Orig. Mini DV, dur. 10′ Exploring their desires, a group of women, perform the characters they would like to be hidden from the public image.
The Art of Dealing
The Art of Dealing 2005 Orig. Mini DV, 15’ I Floral CollectionII Passive AggressiveIII The Essence Being an outlier, a woman decides to become a prisoner of her own underworld.
Feathers and Wings
Feathers and Wings 1999 GRAPHITE IN FABRIANO PAPER, 40 X 28 IN.
Amazilias
Amazilias – clip 1997 Hi8 video, 3″ It shows a hummingbird sipping nectar from an artificial source at different times of the day. The video is based on my relationship with a hummingbird, which I found when it fell from a tree. I nurtured and later released the bird, who kept coming back to me […]
Duida
Duida, Amazonía 1997 B/W PHOTOGRAPHY
Urumaco
Urumaco 1997 Urumaco was an installation that took fossils out of their traditional place in scientific institutions and brought them to an art museum. Featuring real fossils dated from between 6 and 12 million bc and images of the excavations in this desertic part of Venezuela, this installation honored the exhaustive hard work of paleontologists […]
Au Revoir Les Enfants
1995 Au Revoir Les Enfants Hand-sculpted marble slabs Variable dimensions As a result of my trips to the Venezuelan rain forest between 1990 and 1997, most of my artwork has concerned nature, the rain forest, and the trips made by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland to the Americas. Today, this environment is being exploited […]
EPICEDIO
EPICEDIO 1994 Hand-sculpted Carrara marble slabs. 17 x 17 x 1.2 in. During a trip to the Orinoco River in the Venezuelan rainforest, I photographed animal tracks left in the sand and on the riverbanks. Back in Caracas, at the paleo-biology lab of Universidad Simón Bolívar, I identified each imprint and selected those by animals […]
Flight
Flight 1993 This is the study of flying patterns, in this case, flying upward and in circles to confuse predators.