Catherine Feliz (NYC)
© Grafting Hands, 2016. Digital inkjet print.
Para Reclamar is part of Catherine Feliz's ongoing inquiry into photography’s role within the explorer’s imagination, through a personal engagement with land-based practices. In exploring the Yuna River contamination by Canadian-owned Barrick Gold Corp & Goldcorp Inc mines in Cotuí, the Dominican Republic, Feliz conceptually builds a triangulation among the extractive practices that threaten life throughout the globe and asks how does neo-colonial design exert influential power over the earth's resources? Activating a QR code takes viewers into the eye of a dream rich with the prospect of excavating buried knowledge. To reclaim is the seeker’s journey. Feliz as in Fuck You, I am the soil from which you came is a statement of retribution from the source.
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© Para Reclamar, 2021. Window installation: golden nuggets, mounds of dirt, vinyl graphic, single channel video [3:33 min].
Catherine Feliz is an interdisciplinary artist and medicine person born and raised in Lenapehoking territory [New York City] to parents from Kiskeya Ayiti [Dominican Republic]. An entanglement with archival research, disarming apparatuses of violence, and earth based healing inform their practice. They work to reclaim ancestral technologies that have been systematically erased by drawing from multiple disciplines to unearth histories and make space for decolonial futures. Catherine is currently an MFA candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles department of Interdisciplinary Studio.
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