Graquandra
“Under the pseudonym Graquandra, my multi-disciplinary art practice is acquianted with several visual languages. With the intent to convey eco-feminist, decolonial and blendlyful narratives within my art work, I consider the epistemic conversations which material dialogues may arise.”
Graquandra (any pronouns) 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, mostly in Latin America. 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.
In 2024 she graduated from RASL Dual Degree combining Arts and Culture Studies in Erasmus University Rotterdam and DeFine Art in Willem DeKoning Academy. In 2023 she founded The Baby G Experience SB a social skateboarding project focused to utilising skateboarding as a tool of empowerment and community building for woman, queer, gender non-conforming people and allies. By creating these safe spaces, through skate sessions in the public domain, these marginalised bodies found a sense of community and leisure. In 2024, The Baby G Experience release their first magazine.
The approach is to integrate, not separate ourselves from the scene… A healthy and equitable community is the focus, without the input of each skater the culture cannot flourish. The Baby G Experience SB aims to create spaces focused on community building, which can become contagious to the rest of the scene.
Graquandra is also the founder of a streetwear brand called Clitori$h . The brand started in June, 2024 and has been gaining popularity since. The first batch of tank tops with the logo, Clitori$h in gothic type sold out in less than a week. The brand is a companion to the art practice Graquandra tries to uphold.
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 considers the red thread of her work an allegorical hyper-collage.