Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Mery Godigna Collet. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Mery, thanks for joining us today. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

All my projects are meaningful to me, and I try for them to be meaningful to others. As an artist, I do not have all the answers, but I can start a conversation about the issues that affects us as individuals and as a collective. For more than forty years, I have been developing a work of great formal coherence that explores different perceptive, mental, and emotional states.
The unifying thread through the years has been the rigorous research about the “interference” related to societal and ecological subjects and materials and their connection with the subject that I am working on, as for example, trans generation trauma.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I explore the connecting threads between life and death and the strong bio-chemical, socio-cultural and psycho-emotional connection to the environment and our own fragility. By assembling and tensioning objects and raw materials, color and light, my works opens as much as they conceal physical and mental spaces.
Searching for vertiginous gaps between vocabularies of shapes, I explore, the gap between intimate and social, the existential and the everyday, the environment and degradation.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

My background as an architect allows me to have a specific sense of space and physical context. In a parallel way I have been developing my artistic language. It was not difficult to decide which way to go. As an artist, I have been exhibiting my work in several countries for many years, but always going back “home”. To the structure and support that gives us “home”. For political reasons, I had the need of leaving “home”.
The hardest that I have experienced in my professional practice has been losing that structure and support. at a point in life where I was over 55’s. It was like starting again from zero.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I explore the connecting threads between life and death and the strong bio-chemical, socio-cultural and psycho-emotional connection to the environment and our own fragility. For that end, my research crosses lines with different disciplines such as philosophy, chemistry, sociology…

Contact Info:

• Website: www.GodignaCollet.com