Dafne Blanco-Sarlay en FILibro Canadá 2024
Escritora y artista visual/multidisciplinaria
Dafne Blanco: Escritora y artista visual/multidisciplinaria
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Dafne Blanco-Sarlay
Mexican-born multidisciplinary artist, counsellor and expressive arts therapist Dafne Blanco immigrated to Vancouver in 1996. Her paternal grandmother, the granddaughter of Black slaves, escaped Cuba and found refuge in Mexico in the early 1900s, while her Jewish maternal grandparents left Eastern Europe and settled in Mexico in the 1930s. These diverse family origins and her own experiences as an immigrant to Canada inform her entire work, but particularly her artistic endeavours. Blanco's visual art has been part of myriad solo and group exhibitions, including Body Memory (Main Space), Falling into the Deep Mirror (Firehall Arts Centre) and Walking Towards the House of Dreams (Gallery Gachet), among others. Her short stories have been published in various periodicals and anthologies, both in Mexico and Canada; State of Absence, a memoir, was released in Spain in 2019. www.dafneblancovisualart.com |
TRASIEGO: THE MULTIPLE VOICES AND LANGUAGES OF UPROOTING AND RE-ROOTING
A Presentation by Multi-Disciplinary Artist Dafne Blanco-Sarlay and Writer Carmen Rodríguez
Trasiego: Spanish for relocation, transfer, transposition, uprooting and re-rooting.
Three years ago, Dafne and Carmen created a participatory installation of poetry, visual and digital art – an exploration of issues related to uprooting and re-rooting, place, migration and memory. The installation was exhibited in two Vancouver venues (Marpole Neighbourhood House: November, 2021 – May, 2022; and Historic Joy Kogawa House: October - December, 2022) and visited by hundreds of people, particularly immigrants to the Lower Mainland. In this interactive session, they will recreate Trasiego through audiovisual material and readings (in Spanish and English) from their own literary work.
A Presentation by Multi-Disciplinary Artist Dafne Blanco-Sarlay and Writer Carmen Rodríguez
Trasiego: Spanish for relocation, transfer, transposition, uprooting and re-rooting.
Three years ago, Dafne and Carmen created a participatory installation of poetry, visual and digital art – an exploration of issues related to uprooting and re-rooting, place, migration and memory. The installation was exhibited in two Vancouver venues (Marpole Neighbourhood House: November, 2021 – May, 2022; and Historic Joy Kogawa House: October - December, 2022) and visited by hundreds of people, particularly immigrants to the Lower Mainland. In this interactive session, they will recreate Trasiego through audiovisual material and readings (in Spanish and English) from their own literary work.