Cristine Brache

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Cristine Brache (born 1984 in Miami) is an American artist, filmmaker, and writer of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent. Her work spans video, sculpture, and poetry. She has since 2012 been exhibited internationally, in Europe, North America, and Australia. Her debut book, Poems, was published by Codette in 2018. [1] [2] [3]

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Education

Brache holds an MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She graduated from Florida State University in 2007 with a BFA in Studio Art, and attended Miami Southridge Senior High School.

Career

From October 28 to November 28, 2018, Brache was a resident artist with Embajada in partnership with Artist Alliance Inc. (AAI) and Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center (The Clemente), in New York City. [4] [5] [6] Her work has been reviewed positively by the New York Times, Cultured, and the New Yorker. [7] [8] [9] Her films have screened at Slamdance Film Festival, the Florida Film Festival, and Maryland Film Festival. [10] [11]

Her work is in the ICA Miami's permanent collection. [12]

Themes

The artist often takes her personal and family history as a starting point to explore cultural erasure (of the Caribbean Diaspora), shared histories and trauma, womanhood, and the inevitable power dynamics that accompany these themes. Brache is interested in how people codify their behaviors and appearances for survival and adaptation in oppressive environments. In previous works she's also explored the institutionalization of women’s pain and illness, as well as the ramifications of gaslighting—the pathologization of female emotion and expression. She articulates personal histories of female oppression with the wider context of history and art history. [13] More recently, Brache is interested in the loss of meaning and time, nostalgia, notions of faith, love, and death. [14] [15]

Her poetry is described as "unapologetic...often placing the reader in the position of the voyeur, Brache’s poems ambiguously deal with identity, power dynamics, and templates of the female body and psyche." [16]

Personal life

From 2009 through 2014, Brache expatriated from the United States to squat in the United Kingdom, Europe, Turkey, and Thailand. She eventually moved to China, where she lived for two and a half years. [17] [3] In 2016, she married Canadian artist and writer Brad Phillips. [3]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Books

Awards

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