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In 2013, Tatiana earned the honor of exhibiting her work at Cuba Nostalgia Expo where she was able to meet with the esteemed Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas, who played an integral part in inspiring her artwork during this time. Tatiana’s career has been characterized by a fusion of her Cuban heritage with her personal interests, actualizing paintings that juxtapose woman and identity. Her latest series revolves around emphasizing the strength, and beauty of ballet dancers as well as the veiled sacrifices that shroud the artistry of these dancers in an attempt to elucidate the grace and intensity of femininity. This series won the contest to represent the lX International Ballet Festival and was exhibited in the Miami Hispanic Ballet White house. 

Tatiana was inspired by her admiration for the many Cuban ballet dancers who have defected in order to pursue their dreams as artists and to travel the world showcasing their astounding talents. Her work is filled with these type of stories, collected memories of herself and of her Cuban heritage, which she then reflects on introspectively to ascertain and approach a sense of identity and meaning. These memories are filled with bold colors that exude vividity, allowing the viewer to feel present in this fleeting moment in time. This evanescence of time is shown with elaborations of movement through brash gallant brush strokes.

Her ballerina exhibit for The 19th Annual International Ballet Festival of Miami was displayed at  The Miami Hispanic Cultural Arts Center in the summer of 2013

This exhibit was reviewed by Culture Designers but their website culturedesigners.com is no longer working.

The article could previously be found at the following link:

Dancing with Tatiana Riquelme

Below are some of the images from their review that I was able to archive.