Lares Feliciano

Artist Statement

A central theme in my work is ✨time ✨. I am interested in creating experiences where time slows down, turns back, and blends together. I am fascinated by memory, nostalgia, archives, and oral history. All are echoes of time. Time is central to the human condition. Our experience of time is where meaning, connection, and identity are formed.

Time + Context = Meaning

My work always begins with collage and the process of gathering images, ephemera, sounds, stories, and other media. In this process I become part witch, part detective, dissecting and deconstructing the materials in front me to create something new. From here collage evolves into installation, animation, murals, and more. I am interested in time, identity, memory, and diaspora. Often in my work, all of time exists at once, setting the viewer off on a sort of sensory time travel. I want viewers to feel pulled into their own nostalgia, empowered to remember and reminisce.