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
Devota
Mixed media
Growing up in Peru and regular visits to museums led to the discovery of adobe constructions, those that were created to connect ancient civilizations to celestial beings. Devota is an installation with a feel for volume, a monumental artwork made with paper bags. The bags carry a giant structure that elevates their force, giving to their purpose a transcendental and almost mystical beauty. Its form depends on the place, it is presented to nourish the space with abundance.
Paper bags.
Dimensions vary.
Devota means devoted in Spanish, the devotion is in the human effort required to build this structure and the materials offering their strength to become a metaphor.
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.
