Basketshop invites you to Cristina Victor’s HOUSE OF DUENDE, her first solo show in Ohio. Victor’s practice stems from the Cuban-American experience, using flags and translation to encourage conversations about identity. The word Duende is arguably one of the hardest words to translate from Spanish to English because it has various meanings. It can mean sprite or fairy goblin as well as a display of a heightened sense of passion or life without removing darkness and hardship. It can be described as a sort of rapture, equal parts beauty in contradiction

Victor’s interest in Vexollogical research and the study of the common history of flags, opens up a transgressive entry into the art-world by way of flag-planting. Whether collaborating with the public, other artists, organizations or working within her own personal interests, Cristina creates works that are seductive, symbolically loaded and tied to the universal coda of visual language.

Victor holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA with a concentration on Latin American Studies from Sarah Lawrence College. She has exhibited and performed nationally, is an avid vexillolinaire, Cuban and Miami historian and Spanglish specialist currently based in Brooklyn, NY.