Coralys Carter

Email:

a7carter@ucsd.edu

Website:

www.coralyscarter.com

Biography:

Coralys Carter (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary weaver living and working in Southern California. Currently pursuing an MFA in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, Carter is furthering her material exploration into the concept of bodies rooted in spaces and places rooted in bodies. 


Obsessed with locating where memory lives, Coralys layers craft processes such as weaving, printmaking, and sculptural techniques to collapse time – the works themselves existing between a space of being “done” and coming undone.

Coralys has exhibited internationally and has received support from the Longenecker-Roth AIR Fellowship (San Diego), Black Studies Project (San Diego), Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (NYC), Textile Art Center (Brooklyn, NY), Flux Factory (Queens, NY), and Processing Foundation. 


Statement: 


My work is a confabulatory practice and meditation on my ancestral convergences, domestic spaces, memory, and labor. I use heritage craft as time travel. My material-based process/ing coexists with a research practice focused on literature, myth, craft, poetry, history, religion, and family lore. In my work I attempt to reimagine human and non-human bodies beyond their static physical and physiological constructions. I wonder if it is possible to collapse linear time by stitching together the material and immaterial.

I wonder how domestic objects and tools of craft become organs of memory, both shaping and absorbing our experiences of place. In using myriad material approaches from textiles, casting and printmaking to assemblage and handbuilding, I aim to discern where memory and trauma live and to explore alternative taxonomies and topographies of the bodymind.