Jully Acuña Suarez

I am a Colombian artist Based in Berlin,

I have been trying to speak/write about me and my work, not just here, but in different situations and I am curios how most of the artist (visual) we don't say how afraid we are to write and talk about our work. So here, I just started being honest with you and with my self.

As I said before I am a Colombian artist living in Berlin, My family works in the tanning leather production in Colombia from raw to finished leather, therefore I grow up close to the leather industrie where basically I was noticing the process that takes to make a leather bag, shoes, belts... way before manufacturing the final product. So I basically saw what does it take to have a finished leather bag from the most wider perspective...and how this one is at the end just re-famed as a final product.

Why am I telling you this.. because I am simply fascinated with the question of what is behind of...
and certainly I am trying to focus my work to this question.. what is behind of the final 'product' that we see places, objects, images...

I use different approaches from photography, drawing, installations and academic work to talk about this which ends up normally addressing political, social, economical iss...

Ba- Fine Arts
PreMa- in Media & Art
MA- Cultural Heritage

Currently a Phd researcher at Leiden University,
Researching about Art and Heritage

Art as civic action- Berlin
Ph21 Gallery- Budapest
Just Mad - Madrid


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