[collaging creatures]

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2018

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Open Studio, Vermont Studio Center, USA

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Clay, paint – Shapes shifting, softly and sensually molding, shapes sculpting without any modeling… unprecedented, unprescribed, fresh appearances unfold.

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What a pleasure it was to work with material that lets itself be molded and  remolded. At Vermont Studio Center, Wei & Bruno , fellow-artists, gave me some of his clay to explore the material. I took it outside, while the sun was shining and moved the material with my hands, fingers were very excited by the touch of the soft substance. It felt like caressing the body of a lover, gently exploring the shape, curves, marks… also a little red spider came crawling over it, like it was conducting a moon expedition, up and down, in and out of holes.

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Different shapes turned out from my tactile interactions with the clay, like bits of bodies and pieces of parts, little puzzles of coral creatures that formed itself intuitively. Vermont Studio Center’s natural environment connected me again with artistic expressions that appeared organically without the mediation of my mind. Often that head is asked to be on top, to conceptualize, be critical and deconstruct mechanisms in this world to recreate another universe or new order as a proposal to change that world. Here, I felt more like aligning with my environment and let my art be just a medium of how the surroundings were speaking to me.

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[collaging creatures] are explorations of manifestation and form; aesthetics are personal politics and become visible when shift happens: what if presentation makes place for presence? How can we move our thinking from disability towards diffability? In which ways can poetics of plurality be seen as subversive acts to politics of power? How can we multiply meaning to meander out of our minds?