Nayda Collazo-Lloréns

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns (b. 1968, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans drawing, painting, installation, video, printmaking, and text, exploring the intersections of language, memory, perception, and hyperconnectivity. Her works are held in major collections, including Point of Contact (Syracuse University), where she explores diasporic memory and perceptual uncertainty through complex visual systems.

Her piece Bokeh (2010) in the Point of Contact collection, was created for Point of Contact’s 2010 special edition, Alejandra, on Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik. That same year, Point of Contact presented the exhibit Alejandra, showcasing all the works commissioned for this project.

The late Point of Contact editor and curator, Pedro Cuperman describes Bokeh as a metaphor of absence. “Spellbound by what is missing rather than by presence… what you see are traces of what is there but outside of your field of perception,” writes Cuperman. “Finally you realize that absence and presence are both part of the same message. Your gaze only registers one, but you suspect that those traces are sort of footprints of that otherness that may still be there, out of focus…”
View the Alejandra exhibition catalogue here.

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