Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Back to Basics program / JUNE 2022
Nesto Yero
USA
www.nestoyero.com
About
Moments in between,
I have held them here somehow. Just here.
Vulnerable spaces hold malleable memories.
I make manifest
the stillness
of the mind.
The image is
the reinterpretation of experience,
interlaced with transparency
to my current state.
Unavoidable.
My work narrates my own vivid experiences into
reconstructed actualities. The unreliability of my own
memory allows for components of the experience itself to
be inflated, influenced, invented, or removed. The imagery
expresses the emotional landscape that is left behind after
an experience, while the process is my navigation through
such landscape to better understand my own feelings. In
navigating, I bring awareness towards the latent memories of
my own intermediate conditions, now understanding them to
be pivotal moments that have led to the construction of my
identity today.
Finlandia June
Arteles allows soft life; clarity. Its seasons, joy, nurturance,
and recurrence happen silently. Its space, you can move
under, over, between, and through. Its caprices and the
surety of renewal and adaptation will come to you, as they
did to me, and they will swallow you whole. My practice took
unprecedented direction in June. I found interest in new
materials, language and writing, and less organized pursuits.
I thought about the grandness of impermanence, behaviors
of articulation, and how I will choose to arrive at myself come
the next few years. I could not have found more elsewhere
and I hold close to my heart all that I was able to share with
each one of you I have fallen in love with.