Valeria Guillén (b.1992, Tegucigalpa, Honduras) works between Los
Angeles and Miami. She obtained her BFA from New World School of
the Arts (Miami) in 2018 and co-founded Colectivo D/Y in 2020 with
Johann C Muñoz, Jon Millán, and Alejandro Valencia; a collective
dedicated to exploring DIY culture in the Global South through gestures
of generosity and acts of joy. Most recently, Valeria obtained her Master
in Fine Arts at Columbia University in New York City.
In her own work, Guillén pays attention to quotidian, mundane, and
informal passive sculptures that often go unnoticed in public settings.
This overlooked collection of moments teases societal norms and
ignites three-dimensional works that play with the plasticity between
trashed and valued material. Through her investigation, she questions
the shelf life of things in a world of material compulsion by making
objects of care.