Voloshyn Gallery is delighted to present works by Jonathan Sánchez Noa at Liste Art Fair 2025!
Jonathan Sánchez Noa utilizes Cuban tobacco as a medium to reform narratives of displacement as they relate to cultural and religious importance. His approach to papermaking techniques involves imprinting tobacco stain patterns directly into raw pulp slabs. Working on fragments of handmade paper, Sánchez Noa forms scattered marks of personal significance that mimic handwriting, drifting thoughts, or statements left as a signifier of importance in time and space. With much emphasis on texture and force, the works locate meaning and significance in the degree to which marks imprint within the space. Often rhythmic yet drifting around a related notion or tone, these marks leave the viewer with a fleeting impression, or one that is still in the process of actualization. These gestures vary in intensity but ultimately form a cohesive whole, expressing a personal viewpoint and ritual practice rooted in a distinct interpretation of the world.
Jonathan Sánchez Noa (b. 1994, Havana, Cuba) is a multidisciplinary artist working with installation, papermaking, and sculpture. He creates artworks that examine how histories of colonial extractivism have impacted notions of race, identity, and climate. He utilizes Cuban tobacco as a medium to reconstruct narratives of displacement in relation to cultural and religious significance. Through papermaking techniques, he imprints tobacco stain patterns directly into raw pulp slabs. A process informed and influenced by personal ritual, spiritual and vision interpretation of the world. Lives and works in NYC, USA.