Artist Statement
Corrina Delgado creates artworks that examine cultural memory loss from the process of colonial extractivism and displacement and how that has impacted perceptions of identity, heritage, and place-making. She examines the subjectivity of personhood through what it means to be in relationship to place through materiality, process, and technique and the complexity of memory. Utilizing textile and fiber mediums, she reconstruct narratives of cultural displacement to investigate fiber objects’ interrelation of living beings and place and the body in relation to this phenomenon. She approaches making as a co-creation led through ceremony and ritual in collaboration with the natural world and the connection of ecological, ethnobotanical, sociopolitical, and human perspectives. Connecting deeply to heart and nature as a pathway to healing she is interested in supporting ancestral remembrance as a conduit to truth and wholeness. With a focus on material, her practice aims to approach these topics and that which grows around us. In working symbiotically and with reciprocity we preserve the greatest tradition and restore what was lost and forcibly removed. Remembrance as resistance.
Musings