Sarabel Santos-Negrón
Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 1984 Sarabel Santos-Negrón is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and museum professional. Her work is informed by the experience and memory of the social-environmental and political-economic aspects reflected in the landscape of the Island of Puerto Rico. Santos-Negrón earned an MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College or Art, Baltimore, United States (2019); an MAE in Museum Studies from Caribbean University, Puerto Rico (2012); a BFA in Painting and Art History from the University of Puerto Rico (2007); Art History studies from Fundación Ortega y Gasset, Toledo, Spain (2006). Her work has been exhibited in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, Kentucky, Miami, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, London, México, US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. She is also professor of visual arts, independent curator for special projects, and is the current director of the Museo de Arte de Bayamón in Puerto Rico.
"Ordenamiento Silvestre: Ir y Retornar" (Wild Ordering: Going and Return) is an ongoing project for the arrangement and daily documentation of wild plants that I randomly select and isolate as an exercise of meditation and reflection in response to social distancing for the COVID-19 pandemic. With this I seek to make a catalogue and a calendar of leaves, with which I keep memory of the pass of time, the fragility of life and the change of an organism when it is separated from its natural state. The project was started on the first day of quarantine in Puerto Rico on Monday, March 16th, 2020. It consists of visiting a small yard that I have in my residence/studio in Bayamón where I collect different leaves and deposit them in tiny sealed plastic bags. The activity becomes a ritual: I wake up, I go to the yard, I search, I select, I count, I cut, I return to the place of origin and I safeguard what I found. I keep the count of the days in quarantine by the amount of leaves that I collect. This documentation is progressive and it is part of my art practice which is focused on the memory and experience of the social and political construction of the contemporary landscape of Puerto Rico.
"Ordenamiento Silvestre: Ir y Retornar" (Wild Ordering: Going and Return) is an ongoing project for the arrangement and daily documentation of wild plants that I randomly select and isolate as an exercise of meditation and reflection in response to social distancing for the COVID-19 pandemic. With this I seek to make a catalogue and a calendar of leaves, with which I keep memory of the pass of time, the fragility of life and the change of an organism when it is separated from its natural state. The project was started on the first day of quarantine in Puerto Rico on Monday, March 16th, 2020. It consists of visiting a small yard that I have in my residence/studio in Bayamón where I collect different leaves and deposit them in tiny sealed plastic bags. The activity becomes a ritual: I wake up, I go to the yard, I search, I select, I count, I cut, I return to the place of origin and I safeguard what I found. I keep the count of the days in quarantine by the amount of leaves that I collect. This documentation is progressive and it is part of my art practice which is focused on the memory and experience of the social and political construction of the contemporary landscape of Puerto Rico.
Ordenamiento Silvestre (The Catalogue), 2020 (ongoing)
42 different photographs of wild plants Picture size: 17.83” height x 14.06” width $200.00 Purchase |
Ir y Retornar (The Calendar), 2020 (ongoing)(April 26th, 2020)
Photograph of an ongoing site specific installation made with wild plants for the days in quarantine until April 26th, 2020 in Puerto Rico (ongoing) Installation original size: 31 5/8” height x 23” width Picture size: 18.233” height x 13.79” width $200.00 Purchase |
This artist has chosen to support an individual healthcare worker or family in need by donating 20% of sale price for artwork featured in this online exhibition.