Yali Romagoza is a Cuban interdisciplinary artist working across fiber sculpture, installation, performance, and video. Through a labor-intensive process of pulling individual linen threads, she transforms textile surfaces into sculptural forms that evoke skin, landscape, memory, and bodily presence.
Rooted in experiences of migration, disability, and displacement, her work explores how physical and emotional histories become embedded within both the body and the environments we inhabit. Through repetition, accumulation, and material transformation, linen shifts from a utilitarian fabric into a living surface marked by tension, vulnerability, rupture, and repair.
Romagoza's sculptures oscillate between abstraction and corporeality. Folds, protrusions, cavities, and textured accumulations emerge through the slow act of unraveling, suggesting traces of flesh, topography, erosion, and growth. Informed by her experience living with Cleidocranial Dysplasia (CCD), the work investigates visibility, resilience, and the ways bodies are shaped by social, emotional, and physical forces.
Often extending beyond the wall into installation, performance, and moving image, her practice examines the relationship between body and landscape, considering how trauma, labor, memory, and survival leave lasting imprints on both. The resulting works function as material archives—spaces where absence becomes tangible and where transformation emerges through repetition.
At the center of her practice is an ongoing inquiry into how bodies, histories, and landscapes are shaped by rupture and repair.
What becomes possible when the body is reimagined as landscape?