Vernacular A La Mode

Vernacular A La Mode

Vernacular A La Mode

Vernacular A La Mode

Jessica Gispert

United States

My work speaks a language of personal codes. I use transformative materials to create new narratives exploring my role as a Cuban-American woman in contemporary culture. For the last few years, I have been investigating my relationship to spirituality as a once silent part of my identity. The influence of shamanic practices and narratives in Caribbean religions are important in my art work, carrying stories from my ancestry that have been quieted through out
time. My interest in how different cultures use spirituality to navigate between the cosmic and physical world echos my need to explore the sense of corporeality in our current era. Nature and the tools we use to cultivate and preserve biodiversity is also a present theme in my artwork. Overall, I reflect investigations into subcultural practices in the digital era related to ethnography and diverse fields of knowledge like geology, alchemy and mysticism.