Linet Sanchez Gutierrez (b.1989)
Artist Statement
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 Sánchez Gutiérrez was born in Santa Clara, Cuba in 1989. She currently lives and works in Havana. Graduated in Visual Arts at the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana. Graduated from the Elementary Level of Classical Ballet at La EVA Olga Alonso, Santa Clara, Cuba. The artist's work has been exhibited in several countries in America, Europe and the Caribbean in places such as the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba in 2023; the CC Mechelen Museum, Mechelen, Belgium in 2022; the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, United States in 2018; Photo Museo Cuatro Caminos, Mexico City, Mexico in 2017; The Annemberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, United States in 2017; among many others. His work moves mainly within photography, sculpture and video art. Among the awards and residencies she has obtained are: Second Prize in the First Edition of the Latin American Contemporary Photography Award, Monterrey, Mexico in 2018; Residence of EL Espacio 23, Miami, Florida, in 2023; Flora ars+natura Residency in collaboration with Artista X Artista, Bogotá, Colombia; the New York Culture and Society Foundation Grant and the Los Angeles Annemberg Foundation for Portfolio Reviews of the 2018 International FotoFest Biennial, Houston, Texas, United States; Habana Cultura Residency (3rd edition) of Havana Club International, Havana in 2013; First Prize in Post-it (3rd Edition), Havana in 2015, among others. His works are part of public and private collections in several countries.