Tania Fermin

Andrea Ottenwalder (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1995). Visual artist based in Santo Domingo. After graduating from art school, she became a participant in the 26th edition of the Eduardo León Jimenes Art Contest. She has participated in artistic residences and has been part of exhibitions in South Korea and Puerto Rico, the most recent being "La Práctica" by Beta-Local. She explores themes such as impermanence, nostalgia and identity based on the autobiographical.
Statement
I’m a multidisciplinary artist that works with drawing, photography, and installation. I use fiction as a way to critically engage with my context and personal experiences as a young woman living in the Caribbean. Often referencing popular culture and folklore, my work explores in a kitschy, indulgent, and humorous manner the peculiarities of everyday life. I’m interested in conveying how the “personal” becomes “collective” and vice versa. How our surroundings shape us and how we shape them in return.
Rituals, landscape, identity, memory, impermanence, nostalgia, eroticism, and Internet culture, are the recurrent subjects in my work.