ana vanessa urvina

curated by Kelly Martínez-Grandal

From South America to Florida, the Caribbean Sea runs like a bridge. It reaches Central America and, through the Gulf of Mexico, connects to Yucatan, New Orleans and Florida. A fluctuating nature where the sun that rules over the islands barely reaches the depths of the forests that shield the continental coastline. A sun that plays, once again, in the flooded grasslands of the Everglades. And therefore, the waterfalls, the rivers, the beaches. The moistness of mountains. The salty marshes. If you belong to the Caribbean, you belong to water.

The sense of belonging and the changing spirit of nature are precisely what Urvina explores in Memory of the water. In her work, flora and fauna have become indistinctive elements: vegetable and animal frontiers no longer exist. The result are these seductive, haunting pieces: different landscapes, yet one body connected through a constant flow. A memory not just because of what she remembers, but because water itself carries the echoes of our identities and cultures; their beauty and complexities. Water itself represents the fierceness and vitality that we have inside.