María Fernanda Barrero www. livingartroom. com / mariafernanda _ barrero
Statement by María Fernanda Barrero
The central aim of my practice is to investigate the spatial sense of self as a means to observe that everything in life is interconnected and interdependent: there is no gap between the world and us.
My practice is based on two axioms:( 1) everything is part of a whole and is a whole itself, and( 2) life is not a fragmented mechanism, but rather a multifaceted organism where boundaries are illusory. Therefore, life in my work is understood as a web of relationships and experiences contained within a space.
I use sculpture to examine how our perceptual experiences and our spatial sense of self connect us to the network of life. My tools are the monochrome, color, silence, light, and the containment of space. My motifs are everyday objects such as books or chairs, enclosed spaces, everyday observations, plants, landscapes, stars, the earth and the sky, dawn and dusk. My fundamental actions consist of replicating, containing, folding, constructing, wrapping, tracing, mapping, weaving, cutting, joining, and embracing. With these tools, motifs, and actions, I seek to elaborate a full poetics of paradise, to achieve symbiosis, to draw interdisciplinary elements from botany, literature, geography, and astronomy into life continuums, running through what is up and down, miniature and massive. Indeed, these are
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