Sydney Acosta explores the preciousness of time through direct observations of nature that she obfuscates with memories and dreams. Acosta is influenced by landscape and vanitas painting, using a concise visual language ranging from the personal — fast cars, dance music, family photographs, the forest, butterflies, money trees, hearts, roses — to the historical — hybridized religious art, feminist queer literate, and poetry. The result is work that meditates on death and rebirth, diaspora and migration, hybridity, dislocation, and love. She is concerned with the copied, the reusable, the remembered and imagined — work that is neither autobiographical nor representational, existing in a space somewhere between the stillness of photography and a fleeting thought.
Sydney Acosta
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