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Ceremony: Interview with Maru Aponte
“Maru Aponte (Puerto Rico, 1996) emerges through her exploration of watercolor, a medium she embraces as both a site of resistance and metaphor. Challenging its traditional and historical associations with “low art” and leisure, Aponte uses watercolor to navigate the fragility and fluidity of memory, surface, and place- especially within the context of contemporary diaspora.” — KT SullivanCBC Arts: Because we promised you eye candy ...
“If this image doesn’t stop you mid-scroll, I don’t know what would. Those colours. So juicy! The piece (Luna Moth) is a watercolour and gouache painting by Maru Aponte, who’s the artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario. But you’ll find this painting elsewhere in Toronto. She has a solo show at Towards until May 10.”Foyer: Maru Aponte on Pushing the Boundaries of Watercolour
“It’s the seemingly minute or inconvenient aspects of Maru Aponte’s practice that provide the artist with new windows into the possibilities of watercolours: the ripping and folding paper so she can paint outside, the unexpected ways watercolours can dry, and humidity’s ability to make mounted paper fold.Aponte creates vibrant, saturated, and three-dimensional watercolour paintings that challenge the boundaries of the medium and explore her Caribbean heritage and identity.“ —Khadra Ahmed