Biography and practice
The artist
Dayamí Hayek was born in Havana in 1973. After studying at the University of Havana, she lived in Sitges for fifteen years before settling in Lausanne.
Biography
From Havana to Lausanne
Her experience in interior design projects taught her to work with a wide range of materials. This knowledge informs a practice in which collage, painting, volume and objects combine within a single work.
Her travels and personal history feed a colourful, critical and hopeful language. Themes include pollution, women’s rights, peace, racism, environmental protection and the use of technology.
In 2022 she opened FRESA y CHOCOLATE in Vevey: a gallery, studio, cultural space and meeting place for the arts.
Statement
“Art is love. Love is indefinable.”
Material is never merely decorative: it carries the message. Elements are selected according to the subject, assembled and worked through their drying times and reactions.
The aim is to create an immediately accessible image and then open a longer reflection — through the eye, the mind and the heart.
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Selected history
Verified biography
Havana · Sitges · Lausanne
Dayamí Hayek was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1973. After studying at the University of Havana, she moved to Spain and lived in Sitges for fifteen years. Her work in interiors and renovation introduced her to a wide range of materials that later became central to her practice. Based in Lausanne, she creates colourful, critical and hopeful works addressing the environment, women’s rights, peace, racism and technology.
Biography consolidated from the artist’s current official website, FRESA y CHOCOLATE Gallery and published press sources.