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Amy Bravo (1997) is a painter paper, dirt, dry leaves — and feels represented, the artist
of Italian-Cuban descent objects of her personal and proposes what the American
born in the United States, family memory. intellectual Saidiya Hartman
where she currently resides. The diversity of her works calls “critical fabulation.” In
Her innovative approach to materializes the desire to the sculptures A Curio and
painting is characterized by combine complex identities Ella gira hacia adentro de su
dialogue with other artistic and, through the language misma, as well as in the com-
practices — such as illustra- shared between family and position Harvesting, works
tion and collage —, the use culture, recover an ancestry inhabited by roots, hearts,
of irregular canvases and interrupted by exile, reflect- veins and winged characters
also by the overlapping of ing on its consequences — symbolic elements that
popular artisanal techniques in her experiences as a are repeated and connect her
and DIY [Do It Yourself] Brown-Latinx Woman. In works — we find examples
culture, which combine with the absence of a historiog- of these exercises of radical
varied materials — fabrics, raphy through which she imagination. [I. S.]
58 / 59
Harvesting, 2023
76,2 × 58,4 cm
Terra, epóxi, acrílico, grafite,
giz pastel, colagem e linha
sobre painel
Dirt, epoxy, acrylic, graphite,
wax Pastel, collage and
thread on panel