Nereida Dusten
Hermosillo, 1992
Nereida Dusten has a degree in fine arts from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana campus. She was selected to participate in the 15 Havana Biennial ( 2024) and was also part of the selection for the Tijuana Triennial: 2. (2024). She completed an academic residency in Cuenca, Spain and was awarded a grant from the Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la UCLM to carry out cultural management projects in Castilla La Mancha (2017). She has been part of multiple selections in biennials, group exhibitions and art fairs. Her most recent solo exhibition is entitled Between landscapes and fragments at CETYS University (Mexicali, 2025). She was also part of the group exhibition entitled Incision and confluence: Visions of Baja California collage. at the Centro Estatal de las Artes (Rosarito, 2025). His work is developed mainly in the discipline of collage, textile art and installation. He currently develops his artistic practice between the cities of Rosarito, Tijuana and San Diego.
statement
My work is an intimate act of exploration through recycled materials, textiles, found photography and collage. These elements are not only formal resources, but conceptual tools that allow me to question how we construct, remember and inhabit physical and emotional spaces.
Lines-whether seams, edges or divisions-are fundamental to my work. They represent both connections and ruptures: the ties that bind us to a place, the boundaries that separate us, and the memories that blur over time. Working with found images and repurposed materials is an act of reclamation; by cutting, recomposing, and weaving, I redefine foreign narratives to speak to the personal and the collective.
My pieces function as expanded archives, where past and present overlap. The characters that appear in them – extracted from old photographs, magazines or forgotten fabrics – dialogue between silences, inviting us to reflect on the fragility of memory and the construction of identity.
The process is as important as the result: each cut, each thread, each layer of paper is a gesture of resistance against oblivion. The work thus becomes an affective map, a territory where the domestic and the political intertwine to question what it means to belong.
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