Darly  (1992, Colombia), 

Within my artistic practice, I investigate and interrogate the dualistic character of intimate, interpersonal relationships, and broader forms of connection and protection. I'm fascinated by how we as humans, both human and non-human, search for a diversity of intimate forms of connection and tangible and intangible protection, such as architecture, objects, the human body, emotions, feelings, and atmospheres, memories and how these all-encompassing sensory experiences simultaneously - as it were a resonance -can offer safety, security and kinship. I visualize this continuous process of questioning and researching in sculptures, installations and videos, where I mainly work with materials that are usually contrasting and dualistic evoke associations, such as 'hard vs soft', 'cold vs warm', 'organic vs inorganic.

I hold a MA in Education in Arts from The Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and currently I am enrolled in a MFA, sculpture at The National College of Art and Design in Dublin.

Apart from my personal artistic work, for many years now, I have been working as an art producer within various art institutions and projects in and outside of Rotterdam, such as Gallery MAMA, Melly, Do You Get Me, Tent Rotterdam and 100% Hedendaags. From 2020 until  2023 she was tutoring at the Arts and Craft-Associate degree, Willem de kooning Academy in Rotterdam.