A woman in a black and gray dress holding paintbrushes, standing barefoot next to a dog sitting on a chair covered with a white cloth. The background features colorful, abstract paintings on the wall.

BIO

Charlotte Sapene is a Venezuelan artist based in Mexico City and working between Mexico and Nicaragua. Through painting and found objects, her practice explores home, displacement, and belonging.

Her ongoing series, Kavanayén, emerges from a formative childhood experience in the Pemón territory of Canaima National Park, where surviving a small plane accident left her with an enduring awareness of fragility, distance, and transformation. In her work, human figures move through imagined landscapes while houses, windows, animals, rivers, and palms become symbols of protection and connection.

Sapene’s work has been featured in Create! Magazine, British Vogue, Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, and Revista Mirada Ecléctica. She has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions internationally.

ART STATEMENT

I paint because I am never completely sure where I stand. Displacement is not only a subject in my work; it is the condition from which I experience the world.

My ongoing series, Kavanayén, explores a lost home and the body as a territory. Human figures move through psychological landscapes shaped by distance, vulnerability, and the desire to belong. Houses, windows, rivers, palms, animals, and chinchorros appear as recurring symbols of shelter and connection.

Through painting and found objects, I construct an intimate and evolving world where landscape is no longer simply a place. It becomes something carried within the body. The objects I collect and transform extend this world into physical space, turning discarded materials into fragments of memory, survival, and renewal.

My work does not attempt to resolve displacement. It remains inside its uncertainty, searching for the moments when a body, a relationship, or an object can become home.