Laura Camila Medina

My practice honors dreaming and imagination as crucial components of remembering and survival. My experience of transnationality has informed a hybrid approach to making that includes painting, sculpture, video, and installation. By process of intuitive collage, I create analogies of memory composition and the spectrum of identity that blur the line between the handmade and the digitally created. Worldbuilding has become a powerful tool for me to bridge the gap between geographical distance and emotional closeness, fostering a sense of belonging and continuity amidst displacement. Within digital landscapes and installations, I compose symbols from a personal mythology in combination with images from Colombian and US popular culture through a process of experimental animation that is not linear, mass produced, or hyper-realistic. I am deeply inspired by the kisses between mountains and sky from my birthplace of Bogotá intertwined with the fantasy landscapes of Disney World and the migrant microcosms of Orlando, FL. Currently, I am investigating Andean miniature practices, scale theory in relation to memory, and auto-ethnography to continuously build an archive that addresses the complexities of cultural and national identity, “the American Dream”, gender, familial history, and personal/collective memory through an embodied perspective.