Aurora Molina was born in La Havana, Cuba in 1984. In 2000, she moved to Miami, Florida where she currently resides. Her life has always been surrounded by art, due to her father, German Molina, being himself an artist. She finished her BFA at Florida International University and is persuing an MFA at Universidad Europea de Madrid in Spain. She has concentrated and is currently working in mixed media. She has exhibited since 2002 participating in various local and national exhibitions.

“At my age, it was important to hear their stories and discuss their work. I wanted to sew the words. I was also heavily marked by the work of my father, whose formless dolls always seemed to be talking to one another. I started drifting away from realism in search of a way of depicting people through their words.”
In fact, there is an etymological connection between text and texture—both derived from texere—both of which can combine to create a body of forms or words. Sewing –consuere, to bind—her portraits in life-sized dimensions and adding words from stories is a way of giving renewed life to human connections. By sewing bodies inside bodies and words in between them, Aurora Molina also reminds us of how each of us incorporates pieces contributed by others, inhabited by their stories. Likewise, she uses pieces of fabric from the subjects’ wardrobes as a way of composing a collage of their existence. Molina’s hands stitch portraits, fabrics and words in an attempt to conjure the humaneness that today’s world has misplaced. Adriana Herrera, New Herald