Maryangel García Salazar
Born in Caracas in 1974, Maryangel García Salazar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts, specializing in Painting, from the University of Advanced Studies in Plastic Arts Armando Reverón (Caracas, 2005).
Her work explores themes inherent to gender, the body, and sexuality through personal narratives that she understands as part of a collective feminine imaginary. Dreamlike and abstract representations of the body are integrated into the compositional narrative of her works, where, at times, written words accompany, re-signify, and contextualize the image. These bodies are embroidered and overflow onto textiles, generally unstretched, in a gesture that challenges the limits of the traditional frame.
Maryangel collects images from erotic and vintage magazines, old slides, postcards, various wrappers, and tickets. She often appropriates these images and recontextualizes them as a visual poetic exercise, portraying bodies that are simultaneously public and anonymous. Her practice is woven from an identity that fragments, shifts, and transforms throughout the series that compose her ongoing artistic research.
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Venezuela, Luxembourg, Italy, France, Brazil, and the United States. Her work has received several awards, including First Prize in Sculpture at the 4th U.C.V. College Art Exhibition (Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, 2004); the “Jacobo Borges” Honorable Mention in Drawing at the 32nd Juan Lovera Municipal Exhibition of Visual Arts (Caracas); Fourth Prize in Digital Art at the 1st Philips Award for Young Talents (São Paulo, Brazil); and First Prize in Digital Art at the same award’s Caracas edition. She was also recognized as the Young Promise of the Year by the Venezuelan Association of Artists (AVAP) in 2001.
She currently lives and works in Italy.
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