Art creates knowledge, and creating is a path toward understanding the unspeakable. Daniela constructs a world in which the subject lives through light, atmosphere, and the strangeness of images. She aims for the observer to recall emotions or experiences that lead to conversations about topics that are usually difficult to address: illness, pain, death, and our understanding and actions in response to these situations. She questions the production and dissemination of knowledge, what is considered legitimate versus what is overlooked; the dialogue and repair of connections with others after experiencing traumatic events.
When words run out, Art arrives and speaks with its soft yet persistent voice. Ultimately, what I seek is genuine communication. I want to be heard and also to listen, to connect with others, and not to feel alone in the world.
Daniela Acosta Parsons is a Visual Artist (2016), Historian (2018), and Master of Fine Arts, Electronic Arts, and Time-Based Media (2020) from the Universidad de los Andes. She was awarded scholarships during her undergraduate and postgraduate studies and graduated with honors. She was selected for the Colsanitas and Nueveochenta Young Art Salon (2020) and the National Drawing Salon (2020, 2022, 2023). She won the Young Art Award Legado del Arte (2021), Residencias en Bloque (2021), Residencies Exhibition in Plastic and Visual Arts 2017-2021 at Galería Santa Fe (2022), was a finalist in the New Realism/Altered Reality competition by See/me Community (2023), an Honorable Mention in the XII Young Art Salon of El Nogal (2023), obtained third place in the VIII Encounter on Art and Gender by Fundación Apparte (2023), and won first place in the National Drawing Salon (2023) of Academia de Artes Guerrero, Staedtler. She has been a research assistant at Northwestern University (2015), the National Center for Historical Memory (2017), and the Universidad de los Andes (2017). Her practice focuses on drawing, painting, and sculpture.
