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
Estera
Wrapping paper, mixed-media
"In Peru, houses made of Estera carry a historical lineage of people of great courage, coming from many different regions of the country, to create opportunities for themselves or their relatives in the big cities. People with different traditions, beliefs, dances, customs, languages and foods. Esteras inhabit a diversity of cultures. This work is a small structure that, little by little, envelops the space with its beauty. The delicacy of its material is a reminder of its fragility, like the lack of electricity or running water that many had or still have to live without. The matter expands to celebrate its colorful presence, the structure covers the place with its richness."
– Natalia Villanueva Linares, 2021 NOT REAL ART Grant Winner
[Photo Credit: 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.
