Artist Statement
My work is led by an investigation of how to restore alliance with the earth through cross-cultural exchange, reclaiming ancestral memory, and reimagining rituals. I return to the lost memory stored in the body and the land seeking to mend the broken relationship between the psyche, the soma, and the spirit.
The trauma of living in a sensual body led me to create, in order to restore my humanity and find solace in my spirit. Discovering the shamanic path, through the Andean lineage, is when my body became a space that I no longer wanted to dissociate from but instead return back to. To return back to my body meant to return back to the earth, to the Origin of creation. Practicing embodiment is an integral part in my process because through the body restoration begins.
My creative process begins in meditation, transforming into an interdisciplinary practice of ceramic ceremonial objects, printmaking, mixed media collage, and earth-based rituals/offerings. In my inquiries I look through a somatic, shamanic and psychological lens. I aspire to co-create sacred space with the public through weaving together indigenous healing methodologies, meditation, and art making processes.
Artist Bio
Bianca Rose Dominguez (Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian American) is an interdisciplinary artist, healing arts practitioner and educator based in NYC. She received a BA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, in NYC, and an art therapy certificate from Metafora: Studio Arts in Barcelona, Spain. Dominguez began her career in art education, at the Textile Arts Center, spanning over the past 7 years expanding into non-profit art organizations around New York city. She performed at the Museum of Art and Design in Tanya Aguiniga’s solo exhibition, Craft & Care, as a backstrap weaver (2018). She was a featured artist at The Newhouse Contemporary Art in Staten Island (2019) facilitating a public art program centered in art therapy. In 2021 she was the curatorial fellow at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. She was a performer in Siete Poderes, a film created by Koyoltzintli exhibited at the NYU: Latinx Project (2022). Once graduating from Columbia she was the artist recipient of the Mortimer Hays Brandeis Traveling Fellowship (2022-2023). She journeyed to Ecuador and Mexico to research Andean shamanic ceremonial practices and Zapotec artisanal clay methodologies. During her time in Mexico she was an artist in residence at Estudio Abierto in Oaxaca, Terra Ancestral in Chiapas, and Lagos in CDMX. Currently she is completing her MFA in Studio Art at Hunter College in NYC and is a Research Intern at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter. During the summer of 2025 she will be an artist in resident at SOMA in Mexico City. SOMA 2025 Edition also known as Brotes (Outbreaks), is based on the ethical and political orientation proposed by Brazilian indigenous thinker Ailton Krenak: if we are to delay the end of the world, we need to cultivate stories rooted in the vast network of life. During her studies she will delve into the relationship between intellectual and embodied experiences, engage in consensus-building exercises, and examine the dynamics of individual and collective interactions.