Everyday
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday
Freedoms
Program
Maria Paula Moreno
Identity Flag Workshop
Banderas Para Individuos
María Paula Moreno (b. 1992, Colombia) focuses her artistic research on human issues that play out in the private and public spheres. She explores the dynamism of identities forged both by socialization and the intimate world of the individual. Moreno questions the beliefs that contextualize our lives and determine our relationships with others and our environment. Through ephemeral and participative actions, she explores the possibility of constantly reformulating the definition of art.
“Como artista me he interesado por investigar sobre cuestiones intrínsecas del ser humano, tanto en lo privado como en lo publico. Pues creo que entre ambos espacios se construye lo que somos. Encontré que la identidad es un concepto dinámico que se elabora entre el mundo social y el mundo intimo de una persona. He descubierto que por medio de acciones efímeras y actos participativos con otras personas me es posible reformular constantemente lo que para mi es el arte."
"As an artist my main field of research relies upon human issues, which happen to take place within the private sphere as well as in the public one. I believe that between these two realms is where we build who we are. I found that identity is a dynamic
concept that is constructed between the social world and the intimate world of an individual. I discovered that through ephemeral actions and participative acts with others its possible for me to constantly reformulated what art is.”
Credits
Photography - M. Bussell, D. Moses, Eva Sailly
Curatorial Practice Practicum Director - Jose Ruiz
Exhibitions Director - Gerald Ross
Workshop was facilitated by artist, Maria Paula Moreno, and curator, Eva Sailly, as part of the MFA Curatorial Practice class' Everyday, Everyday, Everyday, Everyday Freedoms exhibition. The Banderas para Individuos workshop was help at the Lazarus Center in Baltimore; open to the entire community to design flags representing their own individual identities. The flags were created by Maria, and Eva, as artist assistant, at Open Works, then displayed.
