ARTIST STATEMENT

Gabriela Medina is a Venezuelan visual artist based in Paris. Her work explores change, perception and emotional experience through lenticular art, a medium that exists only through the physical movement of the viewer. Each piece shifts, vibrates and transforms, making repetition impossible. What appears to repeat is never identical.

Medina's career began in photography, a discipline she practiced for over three decades, documenting decisive historical moments including the Tiananmen Square events in 1989. Her images were published in The New York Times, El Nacional and Life Magazine, which featured them in its "The Best of the Year 1989" edition. Part of that archive is collected in the book Children of the Dragon (Contact Press).

Over time, her practice evolved toward languages that integrate digital tools and experimental processes, expanding the boundaries of traditional photography. Although her work is in dialogue with the legacy of Venezuelan optical and kinetic art, her approach is defined by an intuitive and personal interpretation, closer to exploration than to formalism.

She is currently developing Repetir Diferente, a body of lenticular work in which visual construction and the internal logic of the image have become the fundamental axes of her research. The lenticular substrate functions as a living ecosystem, an experience that requires body, time and movement, and that cannot be fully captured in any photograph or screen.

Her work has been exhibited internationally since 1988, including the Venice Biennale, the Carrousel du Louvre, NADA Miami, and institutions in France, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands. She is currently based in Paris and open to gallery representation.