01/12/2025
Public Lecture - Open to all
Tuesday Dec. 2 _ 09:00-10:30 _ Large auditorium
Linet Sanchez - On model photography, memory and constructing narratives
* Originally scheduled for Monday Dec.1
4th year design studio, Gravity and Grace, exploring the material and spatial poetics of how to compose new buildings through the harvesting of resources from deconstruction.
Linet Sánchez utilizes miniature architectural models in her work — which the artist constructs meticulously by hand — to explore the intimate relationship between memory, the built environment, and symbolic images. These quaint, finely crafted architectural interiors are not renditions of specific places; they are structures built from sensory input, emotion residue, and personal experience. Much like memory itself, each maquette Gutierrez builds is a construct or amalgamation of her lived experience.
*My work moves mainly between photography, sculpture and video. To do this, I start by making wooden or cardboard models, creating scenarios to later photograph, film or simply display them as sculptural objects. I start from the analysis of my own memory and mental states in relation to architectural spaces. I believe that memories are not a faithful representation of events, but rather a construction of the individual, a new reality. That is why my work often uses codes related to the scenic and theatrical. I represent empty or closed spaces, absent of color. For me they function as a kind of container that allows me to establish relationships with what is not visible more than with what is shown; and this obsession with emptiness is related, perhaps, to the loneliness that represents that mental space where we live and in which we are all hopelessly alone."
Linet Sanchez Gutierrez graduated from the prestigious Olga Alonso Gonzalez School of Ballet in Santa Clara Cuba, before moving into the Fine Arts Professional Academy in Santa Clara, and finally into the Art University (ISA) in Havana. She currently lives and works in Havana. Her work has been exhibited around Cuba as well as in the US, Mexico, Colombia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and France.
