GISELLE MANZANO RAMIREZ

Giselle Manzano Ramirez is a Colombian multidisciplinary designer and artist based in New York. Her work explores the intersection of art, fashion, and healing.

Drawing from her background in graphic design, printmaking, and fashion, Giselle has discovered a powerful medium of self-expression in textile art. She seeks to elevate everyday, mundane objects by infusing them with symbolic meaning. Through textile design and printmaking, she creates art that bridges the existential and the spiritual, imbuing each piece with deep personal significance.

Her creative process incorporates unconventional printmaking techniques and nontraditional materials, including rust, reverse dyeing, deconstruction, and various textile manipulations. By transforming discarded textiles and ordinary objects, she encourages an intimate engagement with her environment. Her work often takes two-dimensional textiles and transforms them into three-dimensional forms, merging fashion, textile art, sculpture, installation, and performance.

Giselle’s practice is deeply autobiographical, serving as a personal healing journey that translates her life experiences into tangible expressions. It becomes a vessel for storytelling, embodiment, and integration, as she explores themes of confronting and transforming pain, reclaiming autonomy, and finding true healing. Her work emphasizes the importance of embracing all parts of ourselves—uncovering the unconscious and bringing hidden aspects into the light.

Her art invites viewers to embrace the beauty of imperfection, opening up conversations about compassion, vulnerability, and self-acceptance. By reimagining the embodiment of fashion and textiles beyond mere wearability, she blurs the boundaries between creator and creation. Through performance art and installation, Giselle integrates herself into her work, embodying her concepts and transforming the creative process into a visceral, healing experience. Wearing and performing her creations enables her to release stored emotions and connect deeply with her own healing process.

Ultimately, Giselle’s work serves as a tool for spiritual exploration and renewal. She aims to inspire others to embark on their own healing journeys through the sacred process of art.

GATELESS:

"AN OPEN WOUND IS A DOOR"

“As we rise above the flames of adversity, shedding our old identities, this collection becomes a representation of our metamorphosis”