Covid interview to Dulce Chacón

LATANGENTE is a new platform that makes available the distribution and sale of work by Mexican artists via Instagram auction and takeover. As part of her participation, Dulce Chacón answered interview questions using images in place of words, the results of which were originally published at LATANGENTE on May 20, 2020.

Joining in this effort, Onda MX asked Dulce Chacón how she would define her work and how COVID-19 has impacted her artistic practice. In the following, we share with you both her response and the visual interview.

My work is shaped as an investigation of visual narratives that develop reinterpretations of events that occurred in the past, whose photographic record is used as a trigger for drawing. The results are graphic reconstructions that address the event, while giving way to an oscillatory reflection between the representation of reality, multiple versions of the real, and the imaginary. The techniques I use are ink, watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper.

In my case, the pandemic has forced the postponement of two artistic residencies, modified the production of a project and the schedule of three exhibitions, and also forced the postponement of three workshops outside my city. Fortunately, however, it’s also slowed down delivery time and given me peace of mind in my work in the studio, allowing new pieces to evolve. It’s given me time to read more and to deepen my investigation into drawing.

Who are you?

What are you doing now, and what sight do you have?

What’s the first thing you will do after all this?

What would you do for a living if it weren’t art?

Ultimate quarantine life hack

Were we happy before and just didn’t know it?

How is the world going to change?

Your obituary in the form of a meme?

If you had to pass the quarantine in a museum, which one would it be?

How do you imagine post-COVID art?