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interviews on radio, television or magazines, she makes a call for reflection over environmental issues. In 2012 her work was selected to be displayed and to be the image of a conference about issues of dependence on oil as an energy source and on the human rights consequences of that reliance, held at the
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In 1990 she founded the utilitarian art firm Neo-Arkhos and served as
Director until 1994 promoting contemporary designers. From 2007 to 2009 she served as Director for Fundaya Foundation a nonprofit organization whose mission was to aid indigenous populations in Venezuela. Since 2014 is part of the
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Godigna Collet explores the coexistence between humans and environment through social and political issues. Her art work is supported by the versatile use of diverse materials, applied in installations, paintings, sculptures, photography and video, challenging the
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Her work is based in promoting a conscious use of natural resources and technology. Since 2007, for her exhibitions she holds discussion panels pertinent to the show, that bring together the community and experts in diverse fields as well as workshops which promote ecological awareness. During
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Godigna Collet has published in limited edition and in Spanish two books; "Nightly Exercises Notebook" (1995) and "Made with Fiber" (2003), and three art research studies "Matter, Time, and Space" (1997), "Metallic Light" (2006), "Extra Virgin Petrus Oil", 2008.
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viewer through the use of new techniques and unconventional materials in the making of her art. As a minimalistic conceptualist, her own approach to the materials and techniques used in the artwork is that concepts translate through matter.
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organized by the Center for Global Energy, International
Arbitration, and Environmental Law and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. In 2016 her artwork "Let's Talk Volume" was selected by the City of
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Venezuelan Amazon collecting several legends from indigenous cultural lore, that traditionally are transmitted orally from one generation to the next.
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Insuring their documentation and preservation she has organized exhibitions about the subject in
Venezuela, Italy, France and the United States, and has preserved them at the archives of the
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Project" to improve pedestrian and handicap safety for the urban environment. She has given several art lectures and workshops in Venezuela,
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through the program of Art in Public Places, to be installed for the occasion of celebrating International Environment Day.
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