yamila velazquez - Golden Scars

About the work:
The piece presented is part of a limited edition of 5 units worldwide, digitally produced and hand-signed by the artist. Each print is unique within its series, ensuring its exclusivity and authenticity. On the back are included all pertinent data about the work, numbering, and signature.
Total dimensions: 100 x 65 cm
Material: High-quality professional canvas 100% cotton, maximum resistance to handling and external agents from Eco Canvas Roma Glossy, Satinized. We guarantee a durable product with strong visual quality.
Technique: Giclée print, renowned for its precision and lasting quality.

Authenticity certificate:
If the buyer wishes, the artist can provide an authenticity certificate. This must be requested expressly at the moment of purchase.

About the artist:
Yamila Velázquez (Las Tunas, Cuba, 1993) is a contemporary artist who uses digital intelligence tools, currently living and working in Alicante, Spain. Owner and partner of a company dedicated to the sale, representation and development of artists and artworks, Velázquez combines her business vision with a deep artistic sensibility.
This young Cuban talent has established herself in the field of digital art, using contemporary media to explore themes related to nature, the landscape, and the intimate relationship between woman and her environment. Her works subtly and powerfully address topics such as beauty, love, sensuality, and feminine delicacy, always framed in enveloping, romantic, and refined atmospheres.
With a vibrant and expressive aesthetic, Yamila Velázquez manages to fuse classical influences with a modern language, resulting in versatile, fresh, and deeply evocative works. The pictorial texture of her images, masterful use of color, and emotionally balanced composition position her work as a current artistic proposal with high aesthetic value.

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In this piece from the series “Golden Scars,” artist Yamila Velázquez delves into the fusion between the oriental tradition of kintsugi and the aesthetics of European porcelain, especially Chinese cobalt blue porcelain that conquered centuries of visual history. The work not only borrows this ceramic material as a symbolic element but also makes it tangible: into identity, into body and into the human face. The result is a fascinating figure, of ethereal beauty and powerful fragility, that confronts us from its cracked surface, perfectly reconstructed with gold.

This image, half human and half decorative object, is not merely a provocative visual proposal; it is a reflection on fractured identity and its reconstruction through beauty. The skin becomes broken porcelain, and the face is divided between white purity and blue floral ornamentation, alluding to the duality between the inner and the outer, the spiritual and the social, the visible and the hidden.

The golden cracks, far from hiding the ruptures, become protagonists of the narrative. They are golden pathways of a story of survival. This work represents, with astonishing visual poetry, the process of embracing one's own fractures as a fundamental part of personal beauty.

From a technical point of view, this work demonstrates flawless digital mastery. The texture of the porcelain is treated with such realism that it creates a tactile illusion: the viewer feels they could touch each crack, each floral relief. The transition between realistic skin and the ceramic pattern is seamless, as if humanity and millennial craftsmanship share the same genetic code.

The choice of blue and white on a neutral base accentuates classical elegance, recalling Ming Dynasty ceramics, while the gold reminds us that beauty resides in imperfection, in what is repaired, in what has been lived. The contrast between the coolness of porcelain and the warmth of gold generates a visual tension that captivates.

This work is deeply symbolic. It speaks of reconstruction and belonging, but also of visual colonization, of bodies as aesthetic territories on which external patterns are printed. Velázquez not only pays homage to kintsugi but expands it into a contemporary, multicultural, and deeply feminine language.

We could understand this figure as a modern goddess of recomposition, an hybrid icon between East and West, between decorative past and present conceptual art.

This piece is part of an aesthetic line that dialogues with Patricia Piccinini's art for its exploration of the strangely beautiful, and also with the work of Artemis V and other contemporary artists who fuse the ornamental with the corporeal.

Within the global art scene, it also connects with visual post-humanism, where bodies are no longer presented as purely organic, but as symbolic, intervened, repaired, and elevated entities.