Juana Valdés

(Cuba – United States | 1965)

The art of Juana Valdés contemplates a balance between the semiotics of the mass-produced commercial imaginary and a persistent feminist, racial, and cultural exploration. Her direct and poetic approach addresses migration as a complex process that builds a new story from the original sources of the diaspora and the new homeland. She traces the utopian search of the migrant, her displacement, and the transmutation of her identity through everyday objects that refer to her evolution. Her works study economic and sociopolitical dominance and their impact on cultural memory. She challenges the boundaries between the conventional and the experimental and between the personal and the private, from Afro-Latino ancestral heritage and its intersection with transnationalism, race, gender, and class.

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