Ariamna Contino

Ariamna Contino builds her works based on the “openwork paper cut” ritualistic and meticulous technique. Such a procedure contrasts with the topics she deals with, almost always anchored in controversial and highly topical phenomena. Contino develops a special interest in historical, environmental, and socio-cultural issues. She carries out investigative approaches to ongoing conflicts and phenomena that demand constant revisions. From the data she collects in her research, she composes her visual narratives on issues such as Cuban popular culture, drug trafficking in Latin America, narco aesthetics, the underground economy in Cuba, the trade of classified information, etc.
Recently, Continuo’s work has begun to focus on the interstitial zones between the natural and cultural worlds (Deriva, Manigua and Republicas Bananeras' series). From there, she ventures new approaches to national identity and constructs other physiognomies for insularity.
Ariamna is part of important institutional collections such as the Pérez Art Museum (PAMM), Miami;
the Gilbert Brownstone Foundation, Wisconsin; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA), Havana; and the Ella Cisneros Collection, Miami.

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