Amalia Vargas

Born on the Caribbean coast of Colombia and exiled in the north of France at the age of three, I then grew up in Corsica.

This mobility and these shifting landscapes have refined my relationship with the territory and articulated my artistic thought. My work mixes elements with different origins. I use an object as a tool and I am interested in forms and materials in assemblages and sculptures presenting hybridizations, where collective stories and individual histories, traditions and mass cultures coexist. I question space, territory and its identity often by its rejects. My raw material is easily available, taking up a certain iconographic regime. I negotiate between technique and appropriation to build my view on the current society. I move in an almost humorous way, fragments, signs, forms seem to create a new dialogue highlighting duality, a game between the subjects and the materials.

Graduate from the Fine arts school, Ésam Caen/Cherbourg (FR)

In partnership with Bubahof, Za poštou 754/8 Prague 10 – Strašnice (CS)