Marynés Ávila
Resilience

Marynés Ávila is currently an educator and a Masters of Art external examiner at the RMIT University Public Art Unit. As a multidisciplinary artist concerned with socially engaged practice, she creates works that specifically respond to context and community by implementing the use of multiples as data connectors in the public realm.

Taking inspiration from the wonders of nature and its forms, Ávila’s work usually emerges from the tension between the concepts of invasive/introduced and endangered/native species. The artist utilizes repetition to redefine the object and its symbolism offering a subtle platform to  question the consequences of human imprint in the age of the anthropocene.

The investigation of multiples as an allegory for the relationship between the individual, the group, and their interaction with nature shapes the vital focus of Ávila’s art/science research practice.

ARTIST STATEMENT
The residency at Proyecto´ace will extend my ongoing investigation on the complexities of multiplicity in the natural world. My research will focus on the native flora of Argentina, particularly the study of the Ceibo/Erythrina crista-galli species, the national Argentinean tree and flower.

Extraordinarily resistant to the elements such as frost and fire, the Ceibo contributed to the geological formation of the Argentinean Mesopotamian Delta and is admired around the world for its incomparable beauty.

My exploration will include drawing, digital photography, micro-photography and micrographic digital video, all of which will be the catalyst of an installation. The installation will incorporate the flowered lace of my mother’s wedding dress to fusion the concept of European immigration and the native flower. Resilience will be a tribute to the spirit, courage and resilience of the indigenous Argentinean people, our migrants and the ties that bind us together.