{"id":229,"date":"2019-03-18T15:47:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2019-03-22T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:29:40","slug":"statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00abArt is an essence, a centre. (…)
\nMy life and art have not been separated. They have been together\u00bb [1]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]I have primarily worked from painting to expand it to other languages, being interested in the creation of surfaces, textures and colours to communicate my thoughts\/feelings\/sensations, and explore limits in painting, by using different languages to question space and abstraction. In order to achieve this goal, I have been transferring two-dimensional visual spaces to three-dimensional ones as a contemporary way to understand painting, where it is simply colour and material, and to create pictorial installations through colour interactions.<\/p>\n

In spite of the different appearances among the projects, there are some similarities, like small modules that create a big series, researching the relationship between a part and the whole, visual textures that produce a strong organic sensation, images that evoke nature or its abstraction, and using non-traditional and recycled materials for creating artworks.<\/p>\n

Throughout the years, I have been attracted to the ordinary materials around me, as objet trouv\u00e9<\/em> (recycled, industrial and plastic ones), which have become especially significant to me because of their particular characteristics and connotations. I have tended to collect them as valuable belongings; nevertheless, they could be absolutely nothing… but I have used their physicality, colour and implicit stories in different contexts to stimulate sensations.<\/p>\n

I am interested in converting my life experiences into a practice to embody them, in order to invite the viewer to make connections with their own sensations. As the quotation above indicates, my work as an artist has also been a consequence of my life.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner el_id=\u00bbhesse\u00bb][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb25px\u00bb][vc_separator color=\u00bbcustom\u00bb align=\u00bbalign_left\u00bb border_width=\u00bb3″ el_width=\u00bb30″ accent_color=\u00bb#97837a\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb25px\u00bb][vc_column_text][1] Hesse, in Artforum (May 1970), quoted in Lucy Lippard, Eva Hesse<\/u>, (New York: New York University Press, 1976), 5.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\u00bb1\/2″ el_class=\u00bbwide-box-mobile\u00bb][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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