Villanueva Linares is also a cultural worker and co-founded the non-profit organization Yaku in Peoria, Illinois. She is the former Director of the Artist-run mini mansion High Place and founder of the magazine Ukayzine, created to promote international cultural exchanges through the visual Arts. Natalia contributes as a Translator for Sixty Inches From Center, with her series "Desde los Archivos'' and recently inaugurated the critic program CANJE in her studio Fortuna, an exploration in cultural criticism.
Natalia Villanueva Linares
2D 1/2, Paris
Mixed media
It is my bedroom inside a large amount of small plastic bags, they are displayed on narrow glass shelves covering a wall. The bags are organized in order by color and according to the materials they contain. All objects and furniture of my bedroom have been destroyed, cut, and/or shredded. They were then packed inside the bags and stacked on the shelves.
Sixteen shelves, 3000 plastic bags containing: mattress, lamp, frame, notebook, chair, table, purple sheets, colorful sheet cover, pillow (green inside), small red carpet, lamp, mirror, Paris.
3m x 4m x 10cm
About the artist
Natalia Villanueva Linares
Villanueva Linares is also a cultural worker and co-founded the non-profit organization Yaku in Peoria, Illinois. She is the former Director of the Artist-run mini mansion High Place and founder of the magazine Ukayzine, created to promote international cultural exchanges through the visual Arts. Natalia contributes as a Translator for Sixty Inches From Center, with her series "Desde los Archivos'' and recently inaugurated the critic program CANJE in her studio Fortuna, an exploration in cultural criticism.
