Vanessa Gocksch aka PatadePerro, is an artist that
was born in the north but opted for the south. Traveling from Brussels
to Miami then Mexico, now she resides in Cartagena de Indias on
the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
She
studied visual arts with an emphasis in sculpture in Florida International
University, La Cambre - Ecole Superieure de Arts Plastique and Universidad
Autonoma de Mexico. She has worked in many different mediums including
sculpture, etching, photography, installation, performance, video
and documentary. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Mexico,
Colombia, Brooklyn, Miami and London.
As
of the year 2000 she started venturing into the digital realm, self
teaching herself the tools necessary to communicate and create in
what she calls an indispensable medium when located in a “remote”
region of the planet.
She
is presently performing as a video jockey under the name of Pata
de Perro, as well as producing a documentary and developing the
project Intermundos and its website. |