New artist-in-residence: Amalia Galdona Broche

Amalia Galdona Broche is a US based artist from Santa Clara, Cuba. 
Her work materializes and translates real and psychological landscapes, investigating identity, personal and collective memory, as well as belief systems and transculturation processes. Through textiles, she studies the complexities of identity-building as a Cuban-born woman touched by displacement, migration, and transculturation.
Via knotting, weaving, ropemaking, wrapping and other accumulative methods, her sculptures explore the role and definition of textiles in today’s world, focusing on the woven plane as a second skin, a weather-protective and complex reconfiguration of material, ideas, and memories. Manifested in organic, female and generative forms, her work acts as an offering, and act of sharing and expressing an identity that is multilingual, abstract and obscured, yet nuanced and familiar, as is the process of living in liminality.

During her residency at Lottozero, Amalia is in the early stages of a new body of work inspired by the mythical island of San Borondón, the legendary phantom island of the Canary archipelago and the birthplace of her father. Drawing on the island as a metaphor for migration, memory, and an imagined earthly paradise, she is experimenting with the digital jacquard loom to develop woven textiles with integrated three-dimensional elements, investigating how woven surfaces can generate volume before becoming part of a new sculptural body of work.

Amalia Galdona Broche earned a BFA in Sculpture and a BA in Art History from Jacksonville University, Florida. She has participated in residencies including the New York Academy of Art, MASS MoCA Studios, and WOC Residency. Her work has been exhibited at The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Field Projects, The Parachute Factory, The Sculptors Alliance, and other venues.

Her residency at lottozero is funded by RISD New Technologies Fund. 

Amalia Galdona Broche, Vestments in Time, 2023, installation view, woven, knotted and knitted textiles, synthetic resin, paint.

Amalia Galdona Broche, Los callos de una isla tienen caras I _ The Calluses of an island have faces I, 2023, synthetic resin, textile, beads, jute and other woven fibers, 67 x 50 inches.