Kamalishe Hiraldo

Kamalishe Hiraldo (b. 1996) is a Dominican-American artist living and working in London, UK. Her sculptures and fabric collages reflect the complexity of the cultural unconscious, exploring themes of identity, desire, and memory. Influenced by her philosophical reflections, her work references the 'magic of objects' and identifies such as an aesthetic language which functions as the transformative mechanism for cultural consciousness. She has built her aesthetic language from an extensive family archive of objects and ephemera which she has been collating and cataloguing for over a decade.

Hiraldo utilises a playful and child-like approach to highlight issues that reduce the intricate human mind to binary division. By contesting preconceived notions of identity and belonging she further blurs the realm of memory and experience, creating alternate realities: worlds not yet explored.