Giselle Jones
Giselle is interested in diaspora and how migrant communities overcome the challenges they face in an increasingly hostile environment .
Focussing on the Cuban exile community of Little Havana , Miami , Giselle confronts the distorted representation of migrant communities by certain rightwing media outlets . Her paintings and sculptures seek to expose political half truths , and shine a light on the positive aspects of migrant culture to counter the negativity .
Giselle’s research informs her practice : art is for her a visual tool to facilitate a change in thinking towards migrant communities .The materials she uses are as carefully considered as the message they convey.
Giselle completed her Bachelors degree at Goldsmiths and has just graduated with a Masters degree in Fine Art at Brighton University . She has exhibited at the 'Monochrome Gallery' in Whitechapel and the 'Sala Brasil Gallery' at the Embassy of Brazil in London .
'The Third Space.'
Giselle is also interested in merging the digital ( immaterial) with the traditional (paint, material.)
She had studied Auge and his theory on the 'non-place ' versus the 'anthropological place,' and developed a theory that occasionally the two merge to create a 'third space.'
In the image on the right , we see a section of Miami Financial District, the 'non-place' as it lacks inscriptions of the social bond, and is the reverse of the anthropological place such as Little Havana , which is why some of the imagery is inverted .
Giselle's own inverted image of people playing dominos in 'Domino Park' in Little Havana represents an area of the social bond , public space which is being consumed by capitalism.
Inkjet print and acrylic on board , 2019.
'Untitled'
People often change the rules of space , through carnival , protest or marathon , converting a anonymous 'non-place' such as a high speed road into a space which brings people together.
On these occasions people reverse the rules , which is why some of the images on the right are inverted .
Acrylic, inkjet photo transfer on canvas , 36" by 48," 2019.
