Nancy is Colombian-Swiss, born in Bogota and shares her time between Colombia and Europe.
Her professional life has been focused on environmental protection and the defence of human rights. This led her all over the World. She enjoyed the beauty of pristine ecosystems,… and felt the stress that humanity imposes on the planet and the anguish of people in need of humanitarian aid as a result of environmental and political conflicts. "Today, there are serious doubts about our ability to control the environmental and humanitarian crisis we have created. It is this tension and contradiction between the beauty of ecosystems and the threat and destruction that I express in my work," she says.
Nancy has explored, informalism, tachism, abstract expressionism and collage. Different moments, but the same existential concern. In her early periods, she worked the material through marble dust and ashes, and crossed it with her needs to express the action of her body and her feelings.
Nowadays, Nancy crosses the gestures of action painting with the printed image, found in newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and her own photographs. She thus immerses herself in collage as a language that challenges the traditional conventions of art and questions the notion of originality and authorship. This technique creates new visual realities and has a critical and political function by using elements of popular culture and questioning the status quo. She challenges the idea of authorship in art by using pre-existing elements and juxtaposing them in unconventional ways to create a new work. In contrast to her work in abstract expressionism and informalism where the artist creates something completely new and original, in her collages she goes further, integrating original paintings with existing elements, which she selects, combines, manipulates and transforms until she recognises herself in the result of these contradictions and crossovers.
Nancy has developed her techniques, and continues to do so, by collaborating with different painters, in particular, Rita Miranda in Colombia, Joanna Ingarden Mouly and Barbara Bonvin in Switzerland, and Oliver Schneider in Switzerland and Spain. She has participated in several exhibitions as part of collectives or individually