Ivonne Yáñez is an interdisciplinary artist from Mexico City, currently based in Minneapolis, working across soft sculpture, installation, illustration, and painting. Her practice uses dreams as both subject and medium, offering an ephemeral perspective on reality while navigating the intertwined realms of surrealism and memory. Through watercolor painting, installation, and textile-based sculpture, she creates spaces where the subconscious and the tangible converge.
Yáñez magnifies the disproportions and distortions inherent to dreams, merging personal memories with traditional Mexican cultural objects such as Milagros and Floreros de Tlaquepaque. Drawing from childhood dreams and superstitions, her work carries an introspective and emotional resonance, exploring memory and archival imagery to craft atemporal narratives where past and present coexist.
Her current research centers on the theme of magic and the connections between the symbolic imagery of Lotería Mexicana and its relationship to divination practices.
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