Today we’d like to introduce you to Ileana Rincon-Cañas.
Ileana, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
Made in Venezuela since 1975. I am Motion Graphic Designer and 3D artist. I live in South Florida. I studied Advertising and Marketing in Caracas Venezuela and I did a Master’s in Madrid, Spain in 3D animation. I’ve has been working in animation and motion graphics for more than 24 years. That is why post-production has influenced my stories.
A year ago, I began my dedication to formal training in photography. Although I have always been in a relationship with this field since I first entered to develop a photograph in the darkroom more than 25 years ago when I studied advertising, I knew that something attracted me to photography. My constant curiosity gave me to undertake this new road.
I am an emerging artist who uses photography and video as expressive means for inquiring into social consciousness and environmental problems. My work is done by my experience as an immigrant. The ways I see the identity of what surrounds me make me perceive reality with a meaning different. I’ve been strongly influenced by the painting of Remedios Varó, Leonora Carrington, Hieronymus Bosch, Giorgio de Chirico, and Magritte. My work is characterized by a surreal, pictorial, and self-portrait environment, where I juxtapose personal, social and environmental problems.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
As an immigrant, woman, and in my 40s, every beginning is complicated and risky. People judged me and told me that I’m too old to start or to be in any art competition. However, I have had the support of my family and friends, who have helped me focus on achieving my goals.
As an example that everything you propose in your life you can do it, no matter what age do you have or where are you from. I was just been selected by the Venezuela Art Fair in New York City, between June 24th and June 25th and by the Niche Art collective for the Venus Women exhibition in Saint Petersburg, Florida, between May 17-July 17.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I am a fine art photographer and my work are self-portraits. I bare my soul in each of my stories generated in my imagination, converting them into the imagery of a dreamlike order using photography as narrative media.
My world is like that: absurd… They are part of an intimate film that I star in, whose script leads me to juxtapose personal problems, social and environmental. It is the reality that I am concerned about and obsesses me. I have always been engaged with environmental causes to raise my voice, make the hidden visible, what few people turn to see, and thus “detonate” consciences.
In this introspective film, there are dark and profound scenes staged as fantasies, which at times could be with irony, and why not? Other times with comedy. However, it contains intense feelings that contrast with the colorfulness I capture in each one of them. Because of my origins, I bring the baggage of experiences and the colorful things I experience daily to generate my worldview.
Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
I see art more digital than most of the world. The Non-fungible token NFT is going to change everything. Actually, it’s is already changing. The galleries, the fairs, even us have to reinvent with this new way to sell and buy art.
Contact Info:
- Email: ilerincon@gmail.com
- Website: ilerincon.com
- Instagram: ilerincon
- Twitter: ilerincon
