Natalia Sorzano

Descripción del Artista

I have discovered an interest towards the macabre and phantasmagoric exemplification of reality in my work. This appeared initially as an intuitive form, influenced by the superstitious Colombian and Latin American cultures that surrounds me, which are vivid in various intangible manners finding explanations to daily life, reality, death, war and spirituality, through witchcraft or mythological storytelling. This led me to examine images, iconography and beliefs that hid Colombian political and social realities. In observation and unexpected encounters experienced as a social worker –dealing with political dialogue, human rights, sexuality and gender issues as the Coordinator for Sexual Minorities at the Ministry of Interior of Colombia— I appropriated fictitious and morbid analogies to inquire on the construction of symbols and identity as it is crossed by our local context and history. My artistic practice has been driven by my interest on human social attachment to cultural imagery and collective faith. I have engaged in researching the meaning of art through a process-based perspective, reaching into sensorial modes of apprehension, allowing myself to freely explore emotional reaction and personal experience within familiar discourses as a work method. In order to understand collective cultural interpretations (such as the existence of spirits as guardians of hidden treasures or lost souls resultant from political and social conflicts and violence), I began researching through the method of direct contact and dialogue with social sectors. In this journey, I found intersections that reflect social relationships permeated by political and cultural local realities. Realities simultaneously intervened by globalization and the colonization of Latin America, such as hybrid constructions of sexual and gender identity and, for instance, ways in which we understand success and moral fulfillment. I included fieldwork and dialogue with farmer populations and marginalized social groups as means to closely acknowledge how beliefs, dogmas and social accords travel in time and history. Conversely, music and song writing have served as a personal and group emotional exorcism, reflective of a cultural individuality and a collective sense of identification. Musical performance and group action through music has become part of my artistic endeavor. It has allowed me to discover other forms of artistic representation and introduced me to a sentimental collaboration of shared feelings and expressions.

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