Annette Turrillo

Annette Turrillo’s artwork focuses on the themes of reflection, introspection, and symbolism. Her installations take the spectator through a sensorial experience of space and volume, establishing a dialogue between spirit and body. Serenity and harmony in the inner world are some of the sensations you experience when observing Annette’s work.  The large cloth evokes serenity, reflection about human balance and inner view, and has been the central axis of her work throughout the years.

 Annette's artwork is based on her personal concerns and research, on art’s power of awareness through introspection, the onlooker's spiritual essence and consequently the projection of his or her surroundings, both in society and in life. The element is transformed into densely knitted interpretations, inviting the spectator to participate. Once these consequential elements are conceptualized, they guide us in self-reflection.

Annette introduces opposing forces, the spiritual and the sensual, thus integrating a new media for human nature dichotomy. She has spent years researching different materials, adding a new dimension to her installations, attaching different textures to her artwork, emphasizing the sensuality of the lace, the intimacy, and memories they evoke.

Divergencias This installation was featured in my personal exhibition ‘’ Sublimation, Women in History ’’, presented at Coral Gables Museum, FL, U.S.A, in 2017. Through the use of the object's iconography, creating tension and force due to its circular arrangement and repetitive union, I achieve with it two images that are almost the same but with different discourses. This installation is based on the two divergent positions of women, the oppressive-dependent and "the independent"

The Installation Divergences I evokes the vision of liberation, independence, and advancement of women; shoes directed by their tip to the outside of the circular space, moving away from the central point, (patriarchy shoes).

Divergences II, in its disposition, denotes the oppression and domination that is still exercised over women, the little recognition of which they can still suffer in society; white women's shoes, where the tip of the same converges towards the center, interior space, already circularly demarcated, revolving around the men's shoes/domination in society, in evocation of dependence, submission, oppression, domination, and use of his body as a simple object of it.

La Poétique du Silence The installation La Poetica del Silencio is an ode to all women, of all generations, to those who in one way or another have always been very present in our lives, inspiring us with their teachings and their struggles, despite having been sometimes under great silence and as with their bravery and effort, they have laid the foundations for what contemporary women are today.

In this installation memories and feelings are mixed, within an atmosphere of symbolic poetry of silence, leading us to reflection and introspection, establishing a dialogue between memory and spirit. This series is inspired by the fashion of the 1950s, as the woman after the 2nd world war begins her empowerment, goes out to work and obtains important positions. Women have already succeeded in obtaining the right to vote in many countries.

I do not want to play In I DO NOT WANT TO PLAY, Turrillo uses the iconography of two objects, to make a single image and in her speech, we are challenged by her evocation, her feeling of fragility, of disagreement.

The girl's dress as opposed to women's shoes, gives us a narrative in which the complaint is present, to the still existing and increasing child abuse in different societies, whether due to physical or mental abuse, imposition of work, impediment to study, abuse and sexual slavery.

BIO

Annette Turrillo (Venezuela, 1961)

Annette Turrillo was born in Caracas, Venezuela. After having obtained her architecture degree at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, she moved to Paris to embrace her life as an artist/painter in 1996. She  studied  Fine Art at the University Paris VIII and engraving techniques, drawing and serigraphy.

She has been invited to participate in numerous solo and group museum exhibitions, biennals and artfairs, worldwide, including: L’Atemporel, Dialectique de l’image, Espace Cloître des Billettes, Paris, France, 2020; Textile Poetics, Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural, Austin, Texas, USA, 2020; Against Gravity, DORCAM, Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Miami, USA, 2018; Sublimations, Women in History (solo), Coral Gables Museum, FL, USA , 2017; A Thought for the Planet (solo), Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA. 2012; David Kakabadze Contemporary Museum of Art, Kutaisi, Georgia, 2016; National Art Gallery, El Dorado Today exhibition, Caracas, Venezuela, 2007; Salon Exxon, Sacred Museum, Caracas, Venezuela, 2001; Transformaciones, Presencias y Ausencias, Fundation BBVA, Caracas,  Venezuela, 2002, among others. Her artwork has earned the recognition of the specialized media and the public, and is represented in European and Latin American collections.