Nell Pimentel

b. 1997 – Santurce, Puerto Rico

Nell Pimentel’s practice investigates the relationship between memory, embodiment, and visual abstraction. Working across painting, mixed media, and video performance, I explore how personal and collective histories become inscribed onto the body and onto material surfaces. The work is grounded in an interest in opacity, fragmentation, and the instability of representation—particularly as they relate to diasporic and gendered subjectivities.

Through layered mark‑making, erasure, and surface manipulation to generate forms that hover between figuration and abstraction. These gestures function as both formal strategies and conceptual inquiries, reflecting the nonlinear processes through which identity is constructed, disrupted, and reimagined.

The compositions invite viewers to engage with ambiguity as a generative space. Rather than offering fixed narratives, the work proposes a mode of looking that is attentive, patient, and open to multiplicity. In doing so, it aims to create a visual language capable of holding complexity—one that acknowledges the limits of representation while insisting on the presence of the subject.