Yo vengo de todas partes, y hacia todas partes voy
September 21, 2024 — November 2, 2024
Piero Atchugarry Gallery (Miami, FL)
Read the exhibition essay here.
Yo vengo de todas partes, y hacia todas partes voy is a site-specific, immersive installation by Cuban-born, Miami-based multidisciplinary artist Amanda Linares. Linares’ installation centers around notions of belonging and identity, recurrent themes in her practice that she explores through the intentional use of materials. Ideated and inspired by her discovery of a house in Asturias, Spain belonging to her paternal great grandfather, Linares’ installation is a highly personal exploration of her family history and ancestry, and how unearthing parts of our past can shape and complicate our understanding of who we are and where we come from.
In Yo vengo de todas partes… Linares recreates her great-grandfather’s home, a place she has only seen in pictures. Occupying nearly the entire back wall of the gallery, a large-scale graphite drawing on wood panels depicts the facade of the house. Geometric cut-outs on the panels make the image appear incomplete, visually reinforcing the idea that memory is oftentimes incomplete and imperfect.
“Geometric cut-outs on the panels make the image appear fragmented, visually reinforcing the idea that memory is oftentimes incomplete and imperfect. Linares, who recreated her great-grandfather’s home based only on the pictures she had received, preferred “approaching the work with a sense of blindness, of mystery.” In this sense, Yo vengo de todas partes... is a speculative exercise, an opportunity for Linares to imagine, and therefore, define what this place means to her. In this way, her installation becomes a space where the present converses with both the past and the future, where the personal is inextricably linked to the collective, and the notion of time and our existence within it is reframed and reconsidered.”
Select Press
Miami Herald
El proyecto de Amanda Linares nos sumerge en el mundo del recuerdo y la memoria
By: Dennys Matos