Transmedia Artist
STATEMENT
En mi práctica artística, me concibo como una interlocutora entre lo material y lo simbólico, generando un diálogo constante con el entorno que me rodea. Mi obra explora de manera transdisciplinaria temas como la corporeidad, el territorio y las transformaciones del paisaje, cuestionando las narrativas hegemónicas y proponiendo lecturas alternativas sobre los retos ambientales contemporáneos.
Vivo en Costa Rica, y mi taller en la península de Nicoya está inmerso en un entorno de contrastes: océano y tierra se encuentran en una energía vibrante que inspira mis creaciones más recientes. Desde esta perspectiva, abordo las materialidades que el mar devuelve—fragmentos de plástico, arena, madera—en un proceso que revela mi fascinación por las inteligencias no humanas y los estados post-naturales.
Como hija de madre migrante peruana, heredo una sensibilidad hacia los textiles y las materias asociadas a lo ceremonial, las cuales entrelazo con un interés por los materiales descartados del entorno. Para mí, el arte es una interfaz que conecta lo emocional, lo intuitivo y lo político, formando un cuerpo híbrido de prácticas que revelan conexiones ocultas entre lo humano y lo no humano.
Cada material que utilizo encarna historias de adaptabilidad y resiliencia, expresiones de su época que desafían las divisiones entre lo natural y lo artificial. Mi investigación artística se centra en la capacidad de transformación, con una práctica que abarca la pintura, la intervención de objetos, el video y el performance. Mi proceso busca resignificar lo cotidiano, convirtiéndolo en un terreno de exploración, imaginación y cuestionamiento de nuestra relación con el mundo natural.
Biografía
Karla Herencia (Costa Rica, 1985-) is a Peruvian-Costa Rican transdisciplinary artist, educator, curator, and manager of cultural and social action projects. Her work explores themes related to the tensions generated by systems of domination, production, and resistance, as well as community feminisms, the (post)natural, and corporeality. Her artistic practice develops from an autobiographical and hybrid approach, constructing narratives with a strong poetic charge through fieldwork, territorial context analysis, material experimentation, and deriva (drifting).
Graduated in Art and Visual Communication and Master in Project Administration, graduated from the University of International Cooperation, with training in Performing Arts and Space Design at the National University of Costa Rica, she is a teacher and researcher at the National University of Costa Rica (UNA ) on topics of innovation, creative industries, active learning and audiovisual archives. She is an academic at the Teaching Research and Artistic Extension Center and was coordinator of the Research, Art and Transmedia Program. He directed the El Bosque Innovation Habitat project at UNA and continuous training projects to promote active learning.
Cultural manager and curator with emphasis on collaborative methodologies. She is co-founder of the Casa de Mujeres Artistas initiative (Casa MA) and curator of its first two exhibitions “Casa MA I Edition” and “Our eyes can't stop blinking.” Founder and agitator of the Central American and feminist collective WE WANT TO PAINT!
He worked on the consolidation of the Archive of the Study and Documentation Center - Side V of the TEOR/éTica Foundation. He has exhibited in prominent national museums, including the Museum of Costa Rican Art, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia Museum, National Museum of Costa Rica, Museums of the Central Bank of Costa Rica, National Gallery of the Costa Rican Center for Science and Culture, TEOR/éTica, as well as international museums such as the Carlos Mérida National Museum of Modern Art (Guatemala), Centro León de Santiago de los Caballeros (Dominican Republic), among others. It is part of the Central American art publication "Entre Siglos: Contemporary Art of Central America and Panama", published by the Rozas Botrán Foundation. His works can be found in various private collections and in the public collection of the Rozas Botrán Foundation.
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Reconocimientos
2023. Bulegoa Z/B Artistic Residency in the Basque Country. Cultural Center of Spain, Spain.
2021. First place as “Experimental Short Film”, Veracruz World Film Festival, Mexico.
2019-2021. Winner of the academic fund for artistic projects "Interdisciplinary Initiatives", National University, Heredia, Costa Rica.
2015. Visual Artist in Geographies of Forgetting, PROARTES fund-winning project, San José, Costa Rica.
2014. Honorable mention in VALOARTE, IX edition, Costa Rica.
Presencia en colecciones
Fundación Rozas Botrán, Guatemala.
Acervo Artístico de la Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica.
Bulegoa z/b, España.
Murales e Intervenciones Artísticas
2010. Mural, National University (UNA) and the International Center for Sustainable Economic Policy (CINPE), Costa Rica.
2010. Mural, Nicoya Campus of the National University, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
2009. Public Intervention, Celebration of 60 years of women's suffrage rights, with INAMU, San José, Costa Rica.
2008. Book Illustration, "Espacios que unen" and "Rutas de encuentro", National Commissioner for Human Rights of Honduras, CONADEH. Costa Rica.
2007. Body paint, Aproxímate Music Video (winner of the best music video award at the Ibero-American Festival in Caracas, Venezuela), Exnobia group. Costa Rica.
2006. Body paint, APREFLOFAS, San José, Costa Rica.