I am
working on a chain of traces, decisions and events that
surround
me. I do criticize the permanent failings of society, full
of
contradictions, political greed, domestic atrocities, animal
abuse,
women’s illiteracy, let us say human egotism.
Coming from
a macho man society, I flew from home early in life,
and when I
say flew it is because I became a flight attendant at
the age of
18. All my education came late in life.
As a woman,
I am very concerned about our successes and
failures.
When my
work is about women, taking me as a model is an
outgrowth
of my anger taken in violent composition as a form of
vengeance.
My work
started as a compendium of twisted figures, mostly
women mixed
with a background full of brushstrokes done at
random, but
lately my style is changing.
I am trying
to simplify and as Engels said: “Any increase in
quantity
decreases in quality”.
Starting
from scratch, not transfers, vellums, newspapers,
monoprints
etc.
Driven by a
sense of urgency, with free and spontaneous
gestures,
eliminating the superfluous, concentrate on the
emotions,
in spite of my temperament, breaking down the limits
between
abstract and figuration.
The most
challenging part of my creation process right now is to
achieve the
innocence of a child drawing.
With a
physicality and a exuberance of the bodies related to the
expressionist
primitivism, and although some of them may look
a grotesque
satire, emanates from them a sincerity and a
tenderness
that definitely makes my paintings more direct and
emphatic,
not leaving the viewer indifferent.
Women are
my source of inspiration, with their controversies,
and
contradictions.
I state our
gender condition, myself as a model, we are neither
such whores
nor martyrs.
We are
pioneering in suffering, but we hide dark zones and
certain
ruses. In Status Quo, I make them come to light placing
myself in
the equitable center, that’s why my work acquires a
controversial
character.
Women
during the course of history have been prototypes of an
abusive
patriarchy which has created tendencies at the expense
of our
bodies.
Status Quo,
manifestation of static mannequins of changing
time,
stands for solidarity, stop competing for the male,
eliminate
rivalries and have confidence in ourselves, because
men will always
erase us from sight, once age puts more weight
on our
hips.
