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Born and raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Zaire Aranguren is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores the deep relationship between the body, emotional memory, and environment. She views nature not only as a source of inspiration but as a territory through which the body accesses subconscious information via profound sensations. For Aranguren, the natural environment is a space for emotional regulation and creative expansion.
After emigrating from Venezuela, Aranguren has lived in twelve cities across the United States, enriching her artistic perspective through diverse cultural and geographic experiences. She currently resides in South Florida. Following a period of introspection after completing her graduate studies, she feels a need to revitalize her artistic practice, exploring new forms of expression in direct dialogue with the landscape.
In 2018, Aranguren earned her Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York. Her work has been exhibited in notable venues, including the SVA Chelsea Gallery in New York, as well as galleries and museums in Colorado and North Carolina, such as the Mint Museum Uptown, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, and Queens University. She has also conducted artistic interventions in public and private spaces in Rhode Island and New York. In 2016, she received the Regional Artist Project Grant awarded by the Arts & Science Council of North Carolina.
Currently residing in South Florida, Aranguren continues developing projects that reflect her ongoing exploration, viewing her artistic practice as a constant transformative process deeply engaged with the natural environment.
“My work becomes a vehicle to negotiate space together, moving back and forth, closer and more distant, separately and simultaneously.”
Born and raised in Venezuela, Zaire Kaczmarski is an interdisciplinary artist whose work posits the human body as a site of awareness of both the self and our collective oneness. While solo and collaborative performances use ritualistic and meditative practices as a vehicle for exploration of memory and identity, actions like gazing, walking, dancing or intertwining become tools to negotiate with the Other and set the stage for public exchange. Like the human body itself, she understand her practice to be in a constant state of flux and discovery.
In 2018 Zaire completed his MFA in Art Practice at the School of Visual Art (SVA). Her work has been shown around North Carolina in museums and galleries including Mint Museum Uptown, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery and Queens University. Beyond NC she has created art interventions in public and private spaces in Rhode Island and New York. In 2016 she was awarded the Regional Artist Project Grant from the Arts & Science Council in North Carolina.
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Why a Lab?
A lab is my place for researching, practicing, collaborating and creating. My work is informed by my interaction with spaces outside and within. It is important for me to create abandoning the ideas and following the intention.
WELCOME to my lab : )
