Artist’s Profile – Arts Gowanus

Artist Statement: Under the umbrella of an invented alphabet, Zoë explores sentence structures, syntax, and linguistics to create a world that co-exists with a modern reality while remaining fictional. Her process of communication re-scripts language in code via visual translation to detail conversations, thoughts, and writings. These meticulous paintings and drawings evolve from her transracial adoption, language, and absent heritage. As a Guatemalan-New Yorker who grew up around French, German, Hebrew, Spanish and the Nahuatl language, her fictional alphabet seeks to challenge Western perceptions of space and communication that explore notions of place, belonging, and history making.

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