A choice of work by Chicago-based artist Jeffly Gabriela Molina from Táchira, Venezuela. Molina acquired her MFA from the College of the Artwork Institute of Chicago in 2016. Her work is impressed by tales of migration and every day life within the locations she’s lived in Venezuela and the USA. “How One Turns into What One Is?” is a sequence of figurative and nonetheless life compositions. Each a query and a press release, the physique of labor is a mirrored image on Molina’s expertise of residence, household, and work:
“In these photographs, I signify folks, rituals, and experiences which have formed my life and id. A bunch of single-object nonetheless lifes titled “Do-it-yourself Sculptures” particularly deal with what it feels wish to create a house after a few years of looking for one. Photographs of members of the family, ancestors and ghosts accompany a gift that honors and needs to study. A few of the household portraits confer with a distant time, a Venezuela of yesterday that right now’s nostalgia transfigures.”
See extra photographs from “How One Turns into What One Is?” beneath.