Andrea Figueroa

My work aims to re-contextualize ideas of grief and question my own validation of faith and trauma through video, materials and installation. By incorporating forms of arrangements of traditional and nontraditional structures related to death, contemporary modes of communication, and objects that once belonged to my mother, all in relation to my body, my work serves as a type of ritual to honor and understand the afterlife, the notion of resting in peace and ultimately our preconceived notions about coping with death.

On December 14, 2014 my mother passed away after the car she was traveling in had a tire malfunction. I was 5 hours away from the accident and had to travel 2,030 miles to her hometown in Mexico in order to be reunited with her body; consequently I feel a disconnect with the series of events of the accident itself and the sudden conditions I found myself in afterwards.