“I am becoming the soil, a plant, a pigment, a painting, a practice, becoming a thought that spark movement when I type this text, when you read these words, when we breath the same air; just becoming the endless forms of the universe”.

I am becoming is a solo exhibition by Katherine Patiño Miranda. The show includes a collection of paintings, vases, plants, sprouts, video performances, photos and a participatory performance in the form of a communal dinner.

For the last couple of years, Patiño Miranda’s art has been about honoring living forms. Her works, which she call practices, are time meditations always in the process of becoming dealing with cycles of life and decay and the interdependence relationships between the human and non-human. She transforms food waste and cardboard into natural pigments, paintings, performances, installations and new crops. In her work, the lines between kitchen, garden, and creative space blur on a daily basis becoming an ever-evolving field of investigation. Redefining notions like waste and trash, her current artistic exploration begins by cooking, composting, planting and visiting the forrest. 

Separation or the notion and independent self is the alpha and the omega of our current , health, economic, environmental and racism crisis. How to come then into a new understanding notions like artwork, artist and collector? I see myself as a creator of practices for myself and for others that aim to highlight  this non-binary fluidity.