Aimée Joaristi

In her artistic practice, many of Joaristi's works tend to be developed in parallel, so many of her projects are continuous processes. As an example of this, since 2020 she has been developing a work called “Cayados”, made up of 13 canes sculpted in ceramics and a video art that establishes a game of relationship between fragility and strength. This was born after an accident that she had at the beginning of 2020 where her spine was affected, seeking to symbolize certain emotions and some very significant events that she went through in her life during that same year.

She has won IEAA's Emerging Artist Award in 2016 and Contemporary Art Curator Magazine's Artist of the Future Award in 2020.

Among her commissioned work is "The End of the Beginning" (2015, Saatchi Gallery).

She was selected for the following collections: Art and Fashion, Britain, “La Fiesta del Laberinto” for textile design (2013); seven consecutive times for Pop and Op Surrealism collection at the Saatchi Gallery (2013); and foulards by Ostinelli Seta (2014).

In 2008 she decided to focus completely on her art.

This work recounts a tragic event that occurred in Costa Rica on April 6, 1986, when seven women were raped and murdered after participating in a pilgrimage activity in La Cruz de Alajuelita. The crime of case of La Cruz de Alajuelita has not been clarified to date nor has anyone linked to the crimes been publicly prosecuted. For this work, Joaristi reflects on the connection between the languages ​​of her previous work and where abstraction and landscape guide the viewer through the geography of the event.

Joaristi was born in Havana, Cuba, and lived there with her family until the beginning of the Cuban Revolution of 1959. In response to simmering civil unrest, her family moved to Miami and, when Joaristi was three years old, the family would later retreat into exile to Madrid, Spain, the home of her paternal grandparents and maternal great-grandparents. While living in Madrid, Joaristi visited museums and galleries in the city with her uncle, in addition to learning about various cultures, towns and buildings while travelling with her parents in Europe. She took an early interest in the work of Salvador Dalí, which would later come to influence the surrealist nature of her work. At the age of 17, she began her studies in interior architecture in Madrid and at the age of 20, began the study of graphic design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

Aimée Joaristi (born 1957) is a multidisciplinary Cuban artist. Her works include painting, installation, video art, photography and performance.