Priscilla Romero Cubero
Priscilla Romero (b. 1984, San José, Costa Rica), is a professor at the School of Art and Visual Communication of the Universidad Nacional since 2007. She has dedicated herself to the investigation of expanded printmaking and the poetics of the body in contemporary artistic discourses, through teaching extension and community work. The main conceptual axes of her discourse are the skin, the body, memory and identity, understanding the surface of the skin as a graphic diary of our existence, each wrinkle, scar or mark are a testimony of life and tell our story.
In 2010, as a result of the Master in Artistic Production at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Romero invented Latexgraphy, an unprecedented technique of non-toxic engraving, through which the imprint of human skin is registered and duplicated; research that continued in the Doctorate in Art: Production and Research with the thesis entitled In the skin of Latexgraphy, a creative proposal for current graphics, research awarded with Cum Laude distinction for its differential contribution to contemporary printmaking.
What is Latexography?
“It is a new non-toxic printmaking technique that I invented and have been developing for 14 years, which allows me to register, duplicate and print the imprint of human skin and other surfaces in nature through molds that are made by applying natural liquid latex on the body and letting it dry for 20 minutes, once removed from the skin the appearance of the mold is like that of a snake molt, only this time it is a replica of human skin. I call these skins “matrices” and from them I can print their textures on paper using ink and pressure or use them as molds to make three-dimensional form. Latexography owes its name to the material from which the printmaking matrix is made, and because of its experimental and contemporary character it is inscribed within what is known in the art world as “expanded field graphics” as well as in the practices of body art.”
/ Priscilla Romero Cubero
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