Salazar Rosales’s work develops from a sentence she wrote: “Hay
cuerpos cansados por el viaje que buscan enraizarse” (There are
bodies tired from the journey that seek to root). Her interest
focuses on how objects have a potential to show social, political,
and economic contexts, specifically linked to the displacement
of humans, goods and other objects.
She conceives her pieces as spaces of reconciliation to negotiate
between the object, the material and their history throughout
different contexts. Reconciling is also a constructive gesture
in her work, which continuously transforms the objects with
particular focus on their emotional effect. Salazar Rosales
and her sculptures have a relationship of affection. The artist
says: “We are contextual, but also sentimental.” ...
