Marisa Raygoza

Her artistic practice is motivated by an interest in interacting with the objects and places around her in a way that she can learn things about herself and the human experience from them. She walks through the spaces she inhabits observing the things that populate them, their textures, rhythms and patterns, looking for small gestures, details that are overlooked in the routines of everyday life. Details that he can turn into symbols by experimenting with different materials. Many times she makes use of things that are already within her reach such as: found objects and discarded materials; I try to find visual ways to unlock the memory stored in them and reveal something about the haunting presence of the body and its labor. I regularly resort to techniques and processes that demand a lot of time, patience and involve the use of her hands in precise and repetitive movements, such as animation, embroidery and assemblage. She finds that this ritualistic way of working provides her with a space for reflection and turns the resulting piece into a time capsule, which brings together pieces of a complex network of relationships between her body, other bodies and the territory we inhabit.