Graquandra



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©2024 Graquandra

Multidisciplinary Artist/Writer


Front: Reinstallation of walls used in Mi Casa es Su Casa. 
Back: Rembrandt Sudaca
(August, 2024)
How Would the Developed World Decorate its Fondue Without Banana Republics? (2022)
Graquandra with prototypes of Mi Casa es Su Casa (December, 2023)
Rape.  2018
Rerformance on canvas
 150cmx300cm
Intuitive Performance directed by Carolina Campos. La Capella, Barcelona, Spain (2023)
Cover of the Paraaabonar publication and poetic essay. (August, 2023)
Sleepingbag made from fabric scraps shown at a camp for Homelessness. 
Performance in November 2023, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Minature rototype of Mi Casa es Su Casa
Paper Mache, chickenwire, branches, oilpaint.
(2023)
Inside the Paraaabonar publication, cyanotype on paper, coffee, wheatpaste and oil pastels on canvas. (July, 2023)
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Graquandra is a multidisciplinary artist born in Viña del Mar, Chile (2000). The land in which she only lived the first nine months of her life when she and her family began to migrate to different countries, mainly in South America. She/they/he moved to Rotterdam, Netherlands to develop her artistic practice by completing her bachelors degrees in both Willem de Koning Academy in Fine Arts and Erasmus University Rotterdam with International Arts and Culture Studies.

Having grown up amongst multiple cultures, mestizaje, or blends, have formed the landscape of Graquandra’s life. Positioned in a continuous liminal space of nature and cities, Graquandra’s work attempts to communicate alternative experiences and stories from dogmatic ones. Using their Latin-mestiza roots as a conceptual catapult, Graquandra studies the socio-political climate of Latin America and translates it into an array of visual expressions. Their Latinx heritage promotes the studies of ecology, decolonisation, re-indigenisation, the metropolis and monoculture as points of focus when elaborating performances, installations, paintings and other conceptual projects.


Graquandra considers the red thread of her work an allegorical hyper-collage.


Mutation of thoughts on paper.

Digital scans of Graquandra’s an array of conceptual studies and collages in sketchbooks.
Passionate about conceptual art, there is no shortage when highlighting the wide amount of techniques and languages that Graquandra deposits in her projects. For example, oil painting, paper making, book binding, wood work, collage, metal work, poetry, screen printing, postering in the street, typography, video editing, performance without limiting themselves from those that remain to be explored.
Graquandra in front of her poem Caucho, holding a jar of oil based paint pigmented with ashes from the performance Lost in Translation. This same paint was used to letter press the poem. (Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2022)
Graquandra has participated in exhibitions within her pedagogical trajectory, as well as such as self-organised exhibition and participated in others through open calls.