Exhibit Bantry Library 2nd to 13th of June 2026
My journey started long ago, but along the many voyages, one landing hit a chord with a different song.
Ireland looked green and somehow older. Signs were bilingual, and in my first job, Slàn and Go Raibh Maith Agat, or Die Duit, could be heard in the corridors along with English. My kids started saying a few words of Irish Gaelic, and I understood that even when Ireland and my land shared a colonisation story, language was alive here.
And so I started to dig deeper into their native language and wonder why I didn´t know the one from my land.
I am a girl born in Colombia to a Colombian mam and an Italian/German/Spanish dad who happened to be born in Colombia. Migration is in my blood, but to add some to the mix, I studied in an Italian school in Colombia. So, since age 3 up to my Leaving Cert, I had two mother tongues, two school curricula, and I ended up graduating with 5 languages in my pocket… yet none of the five was any of the 86 Colombian Indigenous Languages.
Welcome to my journey discovering myself, Ireland, my Colombian core and connecting the dots to the Italian-European heritage.
Flight of Freedom
Lir´s wings break the winds with a tale about the passing of his love. He winds break under his lament, while the skies and nature are his accomplices, until one day he finds his four children, together, “Le Cheile”, ready for a union of that ONE land where they belong. Rocks and trees are the witnesses and carry in carvings and sing the songs of a Kingdom with swans flying free.
Beauty, the Feminine and Nature
Water flows, carrying wisdom and life, and, like arteries to a beating heart, the Amazon River, guarded by the Yakumama (anaconda), holds Naue over the water. The petals of lilies are now part of a girl holding her place next to the moon’s reflection, her love. Naue, like Nature, holds the right to exist in full beauty, without punishment, in freedom, single and embracing her power.
Warriors under water claim the land.
Echoes of Equality
Spilling Roses- inspired by Turan and Etruscan art with some splashes of decisions and the movement of the balance -stadera- weighing heart, passion, mind and soul, in a flight with swans, seeds and letters.
Before Roman weapons stormed the land of vines, the Etruscans built a place for equality. Beauty wore no chains, and females were not limited to appearance and were not bound to silence and dependence. Heart, Mind, Body and Soul weighed the same on the Stadera.
Hope raises, bringing together two cultures and knowledge for Health.
The Poporo and the Flask
Two lands meet, one covering the mouth of Mother Earth, one giving her the altar of life.
Flow the threads of Bachue, telling the stories in curves, intertwined like the rivers carrying life. Shines the moon of ancient women devoted to poisons for cures, Immolated for a flask of knowledge and the courage beyond the symbol of her womb.
Flora was her name, made of stone, just in beauty and flowers her power, not wild but timely and obedient to them. Caterina, a female shadow behind the dress that covers the land with seeds and flowers, wise and precise, a scientist, a healer.
Chia, shining bright and respected, claims her land again, so her females can share their worthy place!
Mnemosyne and the Wale’ Kerü
Through Mnemosyne’s lips, we could hear the voices of the Arawak, the Wayuu, the Chibchas, the wise, the Wale’ Kerü (spider girl), weaving with their hands, weaving with their voice the stories of Nature’s birth, the strength of the waters creating life, the shining high notes of freedom. The Pileus on their heads worn and assumed with the dignity of those that will not fade in the water of Oblivion. The Antikythera strikes the clock and brings back the knowledge of the forgotten owners of the land.
Sumaj yuyay, sumaj kaugsay – Thinking beautifully, living beautifully
Time (Kurtij) has woven into the Spirit (Samai), into the Family (Ayllu) in the place (Suyu) of Women (Uarmi), and infinite has made its way through Nature, nurturing the Oak tree, a dara with no beginning and no end, stories that protect the womb of life, a thread that Ariadna gives the Benkos Bioho and all those that imprisoned needing to escape the labyrinth of slavery. The thread turns into cornrows, and the seeds of life hide in the intricate lines over the heads of the free. Resistance becomes living beautifully, and in that escape, the free carry their home in Migrations, all heritage is now in a shell and language and history and freedom travel, and grow in perfect proportions, in perfect turns.
All this, from Nation to Migration- references
Naue was a young girl in a tribe in the Amazon. She fell in love with the Moon, and for this, the Chief of the tribe locked her in a cave guarded by a jaguar. A shaman approached Naue and gave her Chicha to make the Jaguar sleep, while she left the cave to look at the moon, but only in its reflection in the water. Naue, driven by her love, jumps into the river to touch the reflection. In jealousy, the chief transformed Maue into a water Lilly, the Victoria regia, to be forever living beside the large reflection of the Moon on the water, the large Amazon leaves. (Amazon legend).
The symbols represent water and single women.
“Llamo a las mujeres del mundo a hacer una minga, a unirse a esta lucha, porque no ha sido fácil. Si nosotras dejamos de luchar juntas con otras mujeres, el mundo se irá exterminando, porque gracias a nuestra lucha respiramos, nos alimentamos y podremos seguir viviendo”.Silvana Nihua, presidenta de la Organización Waorani de Pastaza – OWAP.
Etruscan Society
https://www.necaflorence.com/etruscan-women-claiming-an-identity/
https://www.italymagazine.com/featured-story/what-do-we-know-about-etruscan-women
Antikythera
Antikythera mechanism
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/scientists-solve-another-piece-of-the-puzzling-antikythera-mechanism
Mochila Arhuaca prolongation of the uterus
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/mochila-and-weaving-universe-sierra-nevada-de-gonawindua
Sumaj ruray kilkaipa chumbe suyu / El arte de escribir en chumbe BENJAMÍN JACANAMIJOY TISOY
Cornrows or Canerows
Collections
Rêve & Furia
Rêve & Furia
Skinlessing
Empathy
Di Corsa un Vento
Child of War
Child of Nature
Child of Joy
Chatico y su Rosita
Artemisia and the Winged Inks
Más que FRIO, 360
Transformations of a Wild Horse
Together
The Hunter
Svanur
Run the Eyes of the Wind
Pulse
Naue- Derecho a soÑar
Con Pieta
Butterflies
Horse
Woman in Shame
Pilgrim
Wings of Tear Drops
Skinlessing
Slider 26
Voice of Children- 2022-2026, was built on the tears of all the children who faced being locked, being forced to wear an army suit, and being forced to see their nature disappear, and it shows their emotions in many ways.
Dreamer- started as a series in Colombia, 2015, before coming to Ireland. I had mixed emotions… it was a table where sadness and excitement had long conversations with a wish for liberation, safety and also the fear of disappearing in a second attempt to start a life abroad.
I felt that dichotomy of the wild horse and the domesticated one that can still run wild.
I heard echoes of wings, of swans, and the sea calling for me in a dance of wings that has been my company for a while!”
Venerata- 2019, was my voice in fashion. It started with a need to find clothes that would reflect my colours, and my lines, and a need to be more myself. I gathered all the beautiful images of women in tales, myths and reality and chose my favourite to create a clothing line that we produce under the brand name ArtDot. All the sketches and line work are now the traces of the beautiful process and the witnesses of the stories of the powerful females.
Angels– 2020, is a series that faces the beauty and mystery of death. I was fascinated by the sculptures in the graveyards of Staglieno and Milano, and felt a deep connection to these pale, stone-made figures ascending to heaven with our frail humanity.
“Transformations of a Wild Horse” 2023 Dreamer Series- Pencil and Acrylic on Canvas- 50x40cm
“Child of Nature” 2023 Children Series- Pencil and Acrylic on Canvas- 50x40cm
“Child of War” 2022 Children Series- Pencil and Acrylic on Canvas- 50x50cm
“Child of Joy” 2023 Children Series- Pencil and Acrylic on Canvas- 50x50cm
“Byzantium” 2021 Comic Pilot by David Jordan- Inks- A3- Pages 1,3 and 4
“360°-Zaha Hadid” 2019 Venerata Series- Pencil on paper & Inks 20x13cm
“Más que Frio-Margarita Matiz” 2019 Venerata Series- Pencil on Paper & Inks 20x13cm
“Artemisia and the Winged Inks” Venerata Series- Pencil and Acrylic on Watercolour Paper- A3 2019
“Di Corsa un Vento” 2018-2023 Dreamer Series- Pencil and Acrylic on Watercolour Paper- 29x21cm
“Together” 2020 From Un Angelo of the Monument Graveyard of Milano- Angels Series- Pencil and Acrylic on Paper- 29x13cm
“Empathy” 2020 From Ribaudo Family Grave- Monument Graveyard of Staglieno- Angel Series- Pencil on Watercolour Paper- A4
“La Ghirlandata in an Oval Portrait” 2019 From La Ghirlandata by Rosetti- Venerata Series – Ink on Paper- A4
“Chatico y su Rosita” 2feb, 2023 Dedicated to my grandparents- Pencil on Paper- A4
“The Hunter” 2021 Ink and Acrylic on paper- A4
“Run the Eyes of the Wind” Dreamer Series- Pencil and Acrylic on Paper- A4 2023
“Naue- Derecho a soÑar”- Venerata Series- Pencil, Inks and Acrylic on Watercolour Paper- A3 2020
“Pulse” 2021 Pencil, Acrylic and Ink on watercolour Paper- A3
“Svanur” 2023 Dreamer Series- Pencil and Acrylic on Acrylic Paper- A3
“Sor Juana and the Labyrinth” 2019 Venerata Series- Pencil on Watercolour Paper- A3
“Skinlessing” Acrylic and Plaster Bands on MDF, 150×90, 2015
“Rêve & Furia” Acrylic and plaster Bands on MFD, 2016
“Waves of TearDrops” Acrylic and Plaster Bands on Canvas, 2019
“Butterflies” Acrylic on Canvas, 2018