The Great Escape
2024 · Cartografías
Contemporary Dominican artist
I don’t paint.
I open portals.
And the world transforms when they are crossed.
Cartographies of the Unseen
I am interested in what cannot be seen directly, but leaves its mark.
My work exists between lyrical abstraction and abstract expressionism.
I — The trace
I paint so I don’t die with all of this inside me.
Some works behave like maps, signals or diagrams attempting to translate impact, memory and repair.
II — The cycle
Sometimes, destruction is the first act of creation.
Together, they explore the complexity of human perception, trauma, memory and repair.
III — The direction
I turn pain into beauty — not only through my art, but through the way I live.
A zoom into fragmentation. A zoom out into structure.
IV — Selected work
Selected work
Some works function as microscopic fields — cellular, explosive, visceral.
V — Series
Different distances.
One emotional world.
01 / The Great Escape
Escape
Not about trauma, but about essentialism: the urgency of living, the vulnerability of being human and the fragility of existence. A human mark that comes before any geography.
Explore the work ↗02 / Rebirth
Return
Rebirth answers with colour, expansion and return: not as forgetting, but as continuity after transformation.
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VI — The artist
Making visible what leaves a trace.
Aida Vásquez Yarull is a Dominican visual artist born in 1990. Through mixed media, color, texture, gesture and signs, she builds emotional maps and constellations of shared experience. Her practice inhabits the tension between chaos and stillness, fracture and repair, the intimate and the universal.
“I think of my paintings as emotional cartographies: fragments of a larger nervous system.”
VII — Selected trajectory
Connection first.
Evidence follows.
Red Dot Miami
Miami Art Week · Mana Wynwood Convention Center
Inner Canvas
Galería de Arte San Ramón · Santo Domingo
Rebirth / Renacer
Primera exposición individual · Galería de Arte San Ramón
Cuando mi país llora
Consulado General de la República Dominicana · Miami
Colección permanente
Museo de Arte Moderno de la República Dominicana *
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Exhibiciones, conversaciones y puentes culturales entre República Dominicana y Estados Unidos.
VIII — Professional
For galleries & institutions
Biography, statement, selected exhibitions, press kit and authorized imagery for curatorial, institutional and editorial conversations.
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