My work is led by an investigation of how to restore the nature of being human through reclaiming ancestral memory, cross-cultural exchange and earth- based ceremonial practices. I focus on the intersectionality of being a woman, mankind's relation to nature, and the healing process. I reflect upon the fragmentation of my human nature and the call to return to oneness with the earth and all- relations. As a child I didn’t feel human nor did I understand innate human suffering. The trauma of living in a sensual body and experiencing the dualistic nature of life led me to create in order to restore my humanity and find solace in my spirit.
My body became a space that I no longer wanted to dissociate from but instead return back to. To return back to my body meant to return back to the earth, to the origin of creation. Practicing embodiment is an integral part in my process because through the body restoration begins. I believe restoration expands into restoring our relation to the natural world. My creative process begins in meditation, transforming into mixed media works, collage, ceremony and clay objects. Materiality informs the process guiding me to repair and reclaim healing rituals for myself in reciprocity with the earth.
A question that has been guiding me throughout is, how can art making be a practice to cultivate inner sacred space through meditation and outer sacred space through ceremonies and sacred objects made of the earth?
Artist Statement
Bianca Rose Dominguez (Puertorican and Ecuadorian American) is an artist, healing arts practitioner and educator. Dominguez works with the traditional craft material, red clay, and collaborates with indigenous artisans to create installations, performances, and community-based art projects. She also works with found natural materials, fibers and collage to create works that investigate the human condition in relation to the earth and spirit.
Her projects involve earth based rituals, shamanism, and the relation between humans and nature. She investigates the lost memory stored in the body, the land, and the broken relationship between man and spirit. Dominguez’s work speaks of the artist’s experience along her medicine path as a student of shamanic Andean practices and her process of reclaiming ancestral memory. She aspires to co- create sacred space with the public through involving indigenous artisans, indigenous shamanic practices, and ceremonial rituals.
Bianca Rose Dominguez holds a BA in visual arts from Columbia University in New York City. She is a Mortimer Hays Brandeis Travelling Fellow (2022-2023) having had the opportunity to travel to Ecuador and Mexico to further her research in indigenous craft, shamanism, and the holistic arts, as well as produce a new body of work. She founded Medicine For the People, an ongoing project bringing together healers and artists to cultivate communal sacred spaces, to engage in the intersectionalities of social practice and healing through the arts. She has showcased in Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York as well as in Mexico. Dominguez currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
