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
Colorial
Mixed media
In a simple gesture, the spools of the great Colorial become the space and time of a sensitive mathematical formula. It is a color empire populated by hundreds of spools of colored threads; each individual thread, laden with the history of the material, invades the surface on which it is laid. They are installed on a shelf like all the composing elements of a city. The generosity and strength of the material are shown through the thread tension. Each thread is stretched and meet at one point: Origine.
300 used thread spools + a nail.
50cm x 4cm x 1m10cm
Colorial is the central piece of a series of work: The sisters of the great colorial and Colorial brothers.
(Credits: Photograph by Skyler J. Edwards)
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.
