Horned Goddess in a Hallowed Net by Amalia Galdona Broche
Birth of Horned Goddess by Amalia Galdona Broche
Impotent Horned Goddess by Amalia Galdona Broche
Author's Commentary
The drawings materialize a psychological landscape of otherness and memory crisis. As a child of the Cuban Revolution during the Special Period, a time of extreme economic adversity, I have conflicted feelings about my idealized childhood in Cuba as opposed to the country’s current reality and uncertain future. Through drawings, sculptures, and time-based media, I explore the fluid nature of identity, faith, the memory of identity, transculturation, and immigration. Furthermore, by referencing Spanish, as well as West African belief systems, rituals, and imagery, I navigate the complex and fluid nature of history and identity with these drawings. I am interested in the concepts of nationhood and collective memory, and their impact on personal or individual perception. By investigating the history and roots of a divided nation through a visual language, my works seek to understand the impact of identity politics, migration, and time, as well as collective and personal memory in order to mitigate my own perceived powerless part as a cultural “other”.
The Author
Amalia Galdona Broche is a multi-disciplinary artist working in fibers, sculpture, and time-based media. Originally from Santa Clara, Cuba, Galdona Broche has lived in the USA since her adolescence. She earned a BFA and a BA in Sculpture and Art History from Jacksonville University and has participated in residencies at the New York Academy of Fine Arts, and most recently at the Studios at MASS MoCA. Currently, Amalia Galdona Broche lives in Lexington, Kentucky, where she is pursuing an MFA in Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky.
Amalia Galdona Broche