yamila velazquez - Golden Scars

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

Certificate of authenticity:
If the buyer wishes, the artist can provide a certificate of authenticity. This must be requested expressly at the time 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 selling, representing and developing artists and artworks, Velázquez combines her business vision with a deep artistic sensitivity.
This young Cuban talent has solidified herself in the field of digital art, using contemporary media to explore themes related to nature, landscape and the intimate relationship between woman and her surroundings. Her works address with subtlety and visual strength themes 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 contemporary artistic proposal of high aesthetic value.

Delivery and presentation:
The work will be carefully packaged by a professional and shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, internally protected with bubble wrap to guarantee its integrity during transport. Shipments are made through reliable courier companies such as UPS, FedEx or Correos España, depending on the destination and the most convenient option in each case.
The estimated delivery time is 7 to 10 days, though it may vary depending on the destination country.

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

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

The golden cracks, far from hiding the ruptures, become protagonists of the narrative. They are gold routes of a survival story. 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 perspective, this work demonstrates flawless digital mastery. The texture of the porcelain is treated with such realism that it creates a tactile illusion: the viewer believes they can touch every crack, every floral relief. The transition between realistic skin and ceramic pattern is seamless, as if humanity and ancient craftsmanship shared the same genetic code.

The choice of blue and white on a neutral base accentuates classical elegance, recalling Ming dynasty porcelain, while the gold reminds us that beauty resides in imperfection, in the repaired, in the 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 imposed. 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 icon hybrid between East and West, between decorative past and conceptual present.

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

Within the global art scene, it also connects with visual post-humanism, where bodies are not presented as purely organic entities, but as symbolic, intervened, repaired and elevated objects.