About
Natalia Ordóñez
In her practice of intuitive collage, Natalia Ordóñez explores the invisible fractures left by the disconnection between humans and nature. Through a process that blends instinct, visual gathering, and manual assembly, her work proposes an emotional archaeology of what has been lost: fragmented landscapes, dismembered bodies, and decontextualized organic textures that evoke an interrupted sense of belonging.
Far from following a linear narrative, her work emerges as a sensory response to a world that has prioritized productivity over natural rhythm. The collage technique—with its discontinuous, open-ended nature—becomes the ideal medium to examine what is missing. Each cut is an intuitive, silent decision: a form of listening, a tentative gesture toward reconnection.
Her work does not seek to reconstruct a lost paradise, but rather to highlight the traces left behind when our bond with the essential begins to fade. In this sense, Ordóñez’s collages function as visual rituals, where fragmentation is not a symbol of rupture but of potential: the possibility to look again, to feel again, to belong again.
“In an effort to step away from routine and reconnect with a more instinctive rhythm, I returned to my artistic practice after several years of distance. Art has always been present in my life, shaped by a family of artists, with a ceramicist mother and a music composer father, I grew up surrounded by creative expression.
Since an early age, I explored various mediums including ceramics, sculpture, drawing, music, and writing, often as a complement to my studies in linguistics, where structure, melody, and context held their own kind of poetry. While pursuing my degree, I continued to engage with ceramics and later studied sculpture for two years, expanding my material vocabulary.
Collage has been a recurring and intuitive practice throughout my life. It began with the simple act of collecting images that resonated with me and gradually evolved into something deeper. Without a set plan, only instinct, this latest body of work emerged through spontaneous selection and assembly. For me, collage is meditative and grounding: a quiet, ongoing ritual of observation, response, and self-exploration.”
