{"uid":"Ca2uzkrS30gyPkS2","type":"artist","tags":["painting"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Off Hours","summary":"This work depicts the multiple roles that immigrant mothers are supposed to inhabit. Seeing my own experience mirrored trough my family history, I think of my grandmother in Mexico knitting as a way to hold on to her Syrian past, I will apply paint in the way yarn interlaces itself. Digging into the research as an aim to give a voice to all the immigrant mothers who can\u2019t be seen yet. Each attempt gives me something specific and tangible.\nThese practices of performative painting deepened my awareness of a collective need for care, hoping the works perform as catalysts for social transformation. \nPainting deepened my knowledge of a legacy that intersected with my aim to understand social identities as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, as an artist, as a friend, as a lover, as women.\nWhen I had moved, and moved again I have to leave things unfinished, try to find comfort in the little things I own. Having a family gives me a sense of belonging. I am rooted to these people. I am their mother, their wife and companion, their lover, they need me. Then I dream about moving away yet to another place, an unknown one, far from here\u2026 they move with me, if they stay, am I still myself? The roles I play are not me but sometimes they become my identity.","space":"A Gallery space with at least two walls to hang paintings. Some floor space to install the works that include sculptural elements.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":7,"names":"KAREN DANA","surname":"DANA","email":"Karendanas@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"G19407855","address":"1305 W Waveland Ave","city":"Chicago","nacionality":"Mexican","country_id":"234","birthdate":"1982-03-08T06:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1982-03-08T06:00:00.000Z","telephone":"9174554608","web":"https:\/\/karen-dana.com\/"}