Victoria Ravelo
the space between thoughts
Victoria Ravelo’s exhibition, the space between thoughts, follows fragments of narratives that are geographically disparate, but from the same mental space. These memory landscapes explore the complex relationship between experience and history. The tension between what is lost and what can only be remembered with the intimate ebb and flow of everyday life. Here, objects are also carriers of their own particular memories, connecting and cultivating cultural roots that modern society actively works to erase.
Born in Miami, FL to Cuban exiles, Victoria Ravelo's practice begins at the intersection of personal, ancestral, and collective memory. Her drawings, photographs, sculptures and installations utilize abstraction and metaphor to tease apart the multilayered histories that form a time and place.
Ravelo earned an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in 2021, and a BFA from the University of Miami in 2015. Recent solo projects include: “Hidden in Plain View,” a project in collaboration with the community while in residence at Locust Projects, Miami, FL (2021), and “A Place for Us,” Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA (2021). Recent group exhibitions include: “Borders and Portals,” University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA (2022); “Radical Pleasure,” Spady Museum, Delray Beach, FL (2022); “Introspective: A Reckoning of the Soul,” Art and Culture Center/ Hollywood (2021). Ravelo recently curated “Familiar Distances,” Edge Zones, Miami, FL (2021), and was in residence at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO (2022).
Rise, 2020, graphite and dirt on paper
