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This month we meet artist, Vanessa Figuero, an emerging artist, activist and woman of colour living and working out of Vancouver, Canada.
They were curated by Maya Rodrigo-Abdi of the AGO Youth Advisory. “Vanessa Mercedes Figueroa knows what it is like to grow up and live in Vancouver as a woman of colour. Her art expresses the sticky, hairy feelings we hold in our hearts after we spend our entire lives in this city and still remain unsure about how to look back at the cool harsh gazes we are met with here. Engaging with butterfly clips, broken nails, and other balancing acts; Vanessa works in various mediums that are sourced from both fine art supply stores and our everyday lives. Her studio space is not just limited to the white walls and concrete floors that she creates art in, but is an expanded field of Instagram stories and other social media posts.
