| Miriam Londoño (Medellin, Columbia) studied fine arts at the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Columbia and at the Arts Academy in Florence, Italy. While living in Medellin, Londoño combined her work as an artist with a part time assignment as a professor of arts at the Faculty of Architecture at Medellin’s National University. Londoño’s passion for papermaking started in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was further developed during the times she lived in Poland and Thailand.
The work of Miriam Londoño is the result of research probing into the nature of drawings, as well into visual poetry. Through her drawing, Miriam Londoño has managed to express her journey through life, creating a logbook that traces her feelings about the world.
The letters she writes or transcribes, her sketches of cities, the handwritten books she crafts, and her renditions of the human figure all have something in common: they are sources of memory, rounding off the fragments of a personal and intimate diary. The reason for their existence is the artist’s need to unravel the drama of life, make contact with senseless pain, and capture the gaps of silence that frame the course of our existence. Drawing emptiness is her goal.
Her work has been exhibited in many countries around the world. One of her text pieces was awarded two different prizes while on show at the Paper Triennale in Switzerland in 2008.
She now lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands. www.miriamlondono.com |
