Bio

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and grew up in Managua, Nicaragua.

She has a hybrid practice of prints, photos, video, installations and participatory projects that pivot around issues of migration, navigation, displacement and transformation. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and grew up in Managua, Nicaragua. She received a Doctor of Arts (D.Arts) degree from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, an MFA from West Virginia University and a BFA from Louisiana State University.

Her projects have been exhibited in North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. She is the recipient of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Artist Grant, the Oregon Arts Council Fellowship, PA Council for the Arts Fellowship, Creative Heights Residency Fellowship from the Heinz Endowment and has been an artist in residence at Ox-Bow, Artist Image Resource, The Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, MacDowell Arts Colony and Red Gate Beijing.

Artist's Statement

El video PUSH <> PULL incorpora la selección de 365 fotografías que tomé durante las protestas de 2018 en Nicaragua. En lugar de utilizar secuencias de vídeo, las fotografías se editaron en orden cronológico y se animaron digitalmente. El resultado es un vídeo donde cada fotografía se distorsiona y se estira a medida que se transforma en la siguiente. Este es un proceso generativo donde el efecto es similar a la maleabilidad de la memoria y alude a la subjetividad del recuerdo y al sentido de fragmentación; la manipulación digital extensa crea resultados no deseados: errores visuales, patrones muaré y artefactos digitales que son todos parte del proceso. concepto de este trabajo.

The video PUSH <> PULL incorporates the selection of 365 photographs from the ones I took during the 2018 protests in Nicaragua. Instead of using video footage, the photographs were edited in chronological order and digitally animated. The result is a video where each photograph distorts and stretches as it transforms into the next. This is a generative process where the effect is akin to the malleability of memory and alludes to the subjectivity of recollection and sense of fragmentation, the extensive digital manipulation creates unintended results—visual errors, moire patterns, and digital artifacts that are all part of the concept of this work.