Q&A

How has the Pandemic affected your art and work practice?

It helped me to stay focused on painting. Before I was dedicated to teaching. Realizing everything could change overnight made me react and focus my energy on what I really enjoy and am passionate about, that is, communicating through paint.

 What influenced your art style?

The moment we live in, I like to reflect the present, the contemporary, its colors, its movements.

It also has a lot of my slightly obsessive personality, I had teachers who told me to paint looser, more gestural, but I enjoy taking my time and although I don't consider myself hyper-realistic, it is a great pleasure for me to see how my paintings come to life and take the form of the people I'm portraying.

 What role does your artwork have in society?

Four years ago, I approached feminism, it was a refuge in which I found many answers after going through many complicated personal moments. I have been getting to know people who promote it and who are brave in speaking openly about it, especially living in a country with as much gender inequality and misogyny as Mexico. My goal is to give visibility to these issues and to those people who decide to raise their voices seeking the common good.

I dedicate my time, passion and effort to generate reflections on what moves us as a society in order to achieve a better understanding of the way we relate to each other.

 What concept or narrative is behind your work?

Throughout the time that I have dedicated myself to painting, I have increasingly found in it much more than an expressive possibility, I have found an extension of myself, a natural connection with a complete process of introspection, interpretation, creation and relation with external reality and with myself. This has been evolving according to the moment and circumstances that I am facing. 

I am currently working on a project that reflects sisterhood among women. I seek to generate a reflection on the way in which women are in a current reconstruction process, making visible the limiting beliefs that have divided us for a long time. According to Carl Jung's Law of the Mirror, we have coincided with others to reflect ourselves in them and to find truths in ourselves, even in some that confront us and make us look deeper within ourselves. 

How true are you to your artist statement? 

Greatly, my current project “Me veo en ti. Antologías sororas” successfully reflects it. Especially the part where I mention that "my work comes from self-reflections about human elements that move us to live relating to each other and to generate complex psychological and social structures to achieve it. These shared engines and structures reshape our identity, bringing the duality into play, sometimes contradictory, between the individual being and the social being.”

Do you ever venture out of your creative process to try out new things?

Yes, I recently tried to learn abstract painting since I wanted to combine it with my realistic portraits. It was pretty curious that, just like I do with realism, I was very meticulous and took my time to put each stain in its place. In the end, the work is always a reflection of the artist.