Emilio Maldonado
Jonathan, 2021
Ink on paper
20 x 20"

(framed)

About the work
I make art to explore personal narratives, to navigate life through the material culture of the Northern American hemisphere, to raise questions about social constructs and structural inequalities; to create a platform where multiple modes of understanding can coexist, and where multiple people find meaning relevant to their own experience.

In this body of work, I make use of the human body and its relationship to space to talk about the shared experience of isolation at home during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The medium adapts to this reality, as it is chosen as something that could be worked at home, without the need of a specialized area, without option to expand.

Bio
Emilio Maldonado is an Afro-Caribbean artist living in Philadelphia, he works a mix of media that includes discarded objects, painting, drawing, video and performance. His work is informed by family history, an interest in the human condition, questions of mental health and an interest on topics of social inequality. He currently explores the place that objects hold in the collective memory and abjection as a daily occurrence.

See Emilio's artwork on view in "Dolls, Idols, and Ideals" in the InLiquid Gallery

www.emiliomaldondo.com
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