Thesis Exhibition: March 12 - March 15    

Reception: March 14, 2025, 5-8 pm

Provisions 2024; Banana leaves, Plywood, Casters; 24”x24”x48”

your emergency contact; 2024; Bricks, latex, clay, water; 7'x2"x1.5"

Artist Statement  

The poet Fatimah Asghar, reviewing Yanyi’s Dream of the Divided Field asks, “What is a body but a thing to be entered and exited?” The objects in my work pursue the porosity and permeability of such a body. I approach object creation as the task of making gestures that mine the potentiality of object relations. I often work with materials that I find sensorially compelling; materials that echo and sometimes try to mimic strange yet quotidian encounters such as the breaking of an egg. For this same reason, I often return to materials that welcome transformation such as wax, plant fibers, food matter, liquids, or raw construction materials. My works are practicing, experimenting, and interfering with expected boundaries and orientations. I see sensorial responsiveness to process and material as an opportunity to complicate conditions of intimacy, unfix edges of desire, and access embodied perception. The material subjecthood of my visual work is activated through subtle actions like folding, bending, resting, leaning, hanging, hoping to address materials’ latent capacities for relationality and animacy. My visual research explores formal relationships and suspends indexical connections of form and meaning focusing instead on the physical and aesthetic qualities of materials.

More information about Mo (Maria-Fernanda) Nunez Alzate at https://fernandanunez.com/   

 All photos are credited to the artist.