Carol Young (Uruguayan, b.1952), born in Uruguay, has been living and making art in Colombia since the 1980s. Using ceramic as her primary medium, Young’s installations and sculptures transcend standard perception of the material, creating work that is unique, challenging, and beautiful. Her recent investigation explores the realms of memory, history, and our conceptions of paper.
Working from an intricate network of memory, both personal and collective, Young explores their unexpected influences: how we perceive the world and how we interact with others. Young’s installations evoke these subliminal memories through a dialogue with the emptiness and freshness of a blank page. Drawing on an image that may refer to an ancient library composed of paper and parchment, her work conjures up the sign-filled archive of the many individual moments of experience—unknown and hidden information that yearns to be classified, reviewed, and studied.
Young has shown her work throughout Colombia and Latin America, and she has received numerous awards and honors. In May 2014, Young’s work was exhibited in the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York as part of the exhibition Waterweavers, curated by Jose Roca, adjunct curator of Latin American Art at the Tate Gallery in London.
