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Dana László da Costa expresses her artistic work through textiles. The artist uses the colors and shapes of nature to reflect and address the themes of her native Latin America. Many of the colors used in her works are dyed with plants from this continent.
With the colors and pigments, the artist expresses the diversity of her place of origin and inspiration. Through the works she creates, she wants to show the importance of nature and its memories, which are absorbed by the dyes and preserved in the colors of her works.
“Everyone carries a suitcase with experiences from the past, mine is filled with plants and colors from my country of origin.”
She has been studying textile arts at the Burg Giebichenstein University in Halle since 2015 and has been a master student there since 2022. With the help of the tufting machine, she creates textural and colorful collages that are not unlike tapestries. In her silk paintings, too, the artist looks for ways to show the diverse nature of her homeland and her memories, which are preserved through the colors in her works. She has already exhibited in various cities, including Leipzig, Hamburg, Antwerp and now for the first time in Berlin. In 2018 she received the DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements by foreign students.
