Valentina Becerra

PORTFOLIO Valentina Becerra

INTRODUCTION - STATEMENT For me, expressing my feeling is very difficult. That is why I like art. It is a way in which I can show what I feel, what I think, without having to speak. It is a therapeutic way in which I deal with my problems. I’m no sure of what I will do in the future, but I’m sure that art will be involved in one way or another.

My theme started as death and my question for it was: what is left in the world after death? So I realized that if someone in my family dies what was left with me was my memories of that person. However, I would lose that memories over time, so there were kept for me in video and pictures. That is how I started working with video tapes, like in images 1 and 2. Then I started exploring with mirrors because I liked the idea of something that was there but at the same time wasn’t, it was kind of an illusion Maria Teresa Incapie. I always knew that as time passes not only memories fade, but also pictures and videos, and I wanted to portray this. I wanted to show the effect of time, but instead of making pictures fade I wanted them “stronger”. So I made some stencils of pictures of family members and placed them on paper, then I left them under the sun o be burned. Since it is important foo meet around board games, as a memory of those sweet moments I decided to use chocolate to create the game tokens So I used chocolate in my last piece. I was inspired by the work of Robert Smithson

Burned Memories

Burned tape on mirrors 2x12x8 in.

Name Tags

Name tags carved on tape 3.7x6.1x0.98 in.

Mirrors

Mirrors, pictures, transfer medium 20x20x20 in.

Sun

Paper, sun, wall 87x103x0.75 in.

Chocolate

Chocolate, game token, silicone, plaster 1.25x40x40 in.