1993 - The Path to Memory - The Island (Installation)

I would suggest that Triana’s emphasis on the structural and discursive device that have, since the beginning of modernity, shape out perception of the world, underlines the constructive character of memory and identity. While recent artistic production and much of the contemporary criticism has focused on art as a redemptive process and a way of representing national and cultural identity, works like Triana’s seem to think of art in terms of contingent models of representation always bounded to the discursive structures of society.

Excerpt from Gladys Triana at Art Nexus Sept-Dec 1995

Monica Amor, Independent Curator and Art Critic