Vero Rose Smith
Vero Rose Smith now lives and works in Chicago, IL but has deep ties to Iowa City, Iowa, where she earned her first graduate degree and where she taught and curated for nearly five years post-graduation. She pokes at the barrier between the quantitative and the qualitative through data-driven paintings, installations, and performances. Please contact the artist directly for purchase inquiries.
University of Iowa, MA Art History 2014
Instagram: VeroRose.Smith
Website: verorosesmith.com
Artist Statement
We can never truly know the experience of another. Active listening is a form of translation, of synthesizing someone else’s words into your own experience of the world. While watching the interviews for women: hood 2nd Edition and editing the transcripts for the videos, I kept returning to thoughts of shared experiences through shared language. I wondered how I might invite the words of those interviewed to move through and infuse me - heart, mind, and body. I followed this thought literally and transcribed each interview by hand, looping words on top of words until a dense thicket of pattern emerged.
