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Pareces esperar que yo te diga algo (You seem to be waiting for me to tell
you something)
Medium Acrylic on Fabriano Black Paper 200 gms
Dimensions 19.7” x 27.5” , 50 x 70cm​
​September 2024
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$950, Plus Shipping
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This work is part of the series of works La Quebrada. It was elaborated from the loss of one of my most loved ones. Quebrada, in spanish has many meanings, it can be a river, a rupture between two mountains or something that separates two moments of life. It is said that the pain of grief is like the stagnant water that slowly is flowing and without realizing it is passing. Like the other works in this series, this work was made from the visit to several rivers on the island of Puerto Rico. For me, those moments were important in my process and meant an authentic connection with nature. A living jungle that reflects both the sadness and the illumination of hope
about what life is.
Milaniza Montalvo Garcia
Milaniza Montalvo García (San Juan, 1981) is a visual artist, teacher and art therapist living and working in Valencia, Spain. She has a Master's Degree in Artistic Production, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (2022); Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts and Public Communication from the University of Puerto Rico (2005) and a Postgraduate Degree in Art Therapy, National University of Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina. After having lived in three countries outside of her native country; Mexico, Argentina and Spain, her work is positioned from the autobiographical and critical. She investigates the myth of paradise, the Caribbean landscape and its intersections with migration and geopolitics. She uses collage as a reference and primary medium, using archive images and her own photographs. Works mainly in painting, as well as drawing, analog collage, artist's book and public art. Her work has been exhibited in Puerto Rico, the United States, Mexico, Argentina and Spain. She was selected for the PAC Artists Program (2019) at the Gachi Prieto Gallery in Buenos Aires. She has won awards in Argentina and Spain, including the Transport ARTE selection (Spain, 2021) where her work was placed on one of the EMT Valencia buses; First Prize in the Art and Sports Competition, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain, 2021); Jury Mention at the 23rd Palermo Viejo Painting Salon (Argentina, 2017); Arte Vittal Prize selection (Argentina, 2018); and the 22nd Palermo Viejo Painting Salon (Argentina, 2018).
Artist Statement:
The Caribbean islands carry the landscape as their banner. Nature is their ally, through which the basics can be recovered, as it is witness, victim and teacher. It is said that no history has managed to capture the fact that the beauty of the islands could help slaves survive and that is because the Caribbean has its charming and alienating beauty like the love of an unrequited love. A landscape that, from a distance, is more than a pleasant paradise, it is evidence of cultural exchanges and social transformations that appeal to and condition us. As a Caribbean, I grew up looking at a landscape in the center of an island. In front of me was the sky and behind me the mountain, in front of me was the light and behind me was the shadow. This contrast of alienating beauty enunciates the traces of a social history full of contradictions.
As I grew up, I became a migrant and the different landscapes I experienced gave me form, a way of understanding the world and my own identity. The landscape shows who we are, what we desire, as well as what we avoid. Whether it is through nostalgia, hope or enjoyment, the natural environment gives us back what we are, reminding us that we belong to a shared cycle of life. Through my work I am interested in investigating the interdependence between human beings and nature, which is evident in the Caribbean throughout its history. The subjective and the objective in the dialogue of the various places lived, desired, denied and forgotten throughout the journey of life. An urgent need to return to nature, as a meeting place and a constitutive space of our identity, the so-called “eco-identity.” My task then, is an attempt to recover the imaginary of one’s own paradise through the conviction of what is possible about what remains of the world.