Santa Clara, Cuba, 1989. Sánchez Gutiérrez currently lives and works in Havana. She is a graduate of the University of Arts (ISA) in Havana where she studied Visual Arts and a graduate of the Professional Academy of Fine Arts Leopoldo Romañach, Santa Clara, Cuba where she majored in Painting. She has also studied Ballet at the Vocational School of Art "Olga Alonso González" in Santa Clara, Cuba.
Sánchez work has been exhibited in many countries in the Americas, Europe and the Caribbean in places like the CC Mechelen, Mechelen, Bélgica en 2022; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.A. in 2018; Galería Rostrum, Malmö, Suecia in 2018; Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos, Ciudad de México, México in 2017; The Annemberg Space for Photography, Los Ángeles, U.S.A. in 2017; Centro de arte contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba in 2016; Factoría Habana, La Habana, Cuba in 2010 amoung many others. She has been awarded with the Second Prize at the First Edition of Prize for Contemporary Photography of Latinoamerica, Monterrey, Mexico, 2018; Flora ars+natura Residency in collaboration con Artista X Artista, Bogotá, Colombia, 2018; FotoFest Scholarship, Houston, Texas for 2018; Havana Culture Residency (3rd Edition) from Havana Club International, Havana in 2013; First Prize at Post-it (3rd Edition), Havana in 2015; and Third Prize of Cuban Art, ArtOnCuba Magazine in 2015 among others. Her works are part of public and private collections in several countries.
Linet works in photography, sculpture and video. Her works focuses on memories and mental images related to architectural spaces that she reconstructs as cardboard or wood models. These become non-inhabited environments that she uses to speak about the relationships she finds between memories and oblivion. She explores how memories are not a reality but a construction of our mind, something new.
'My work connects mainly with memory and architectural spaces which I feel like a kind of container of our life experiences. I show them white and empty alluding to oblivion and at the same time to a kind of birth because for me, over time, our memories are separate from the reality where they were born to become something else.
My works arise from self-absorption, from introspection and not from the observation of what is around me; they intend to return to this state in their contemplation. These spaces are built as a cardboard model first, then I take the photographs.'
The artist speaks about herself. As seen in Southeast Museum of Photography. Daytona State College. Constructed Memory: Linet Sanchez Gutierrez. Exhibited from June 19th to September 15th, 2018
