ARTIST STATEMENT:
Revealing is the art-action that underlie my artwork. I dedicate my work to express through creating eclectic and visceral artwork made exclusively from cast-off materials my fearless quest for capturing the forms, shadows, faces, bodies … lives and vibrations that are hidden to at first sight but that suffocatingly surrounding us. From wood and carton pieces, to old and expired paints, which, after a special process, are “reborn” to create new, interesting textures; from glass, and metal to screws, and many other timeless and unconventional materials make my art very eclectic, vibrant, and out of the ordinary. My current art-work, painting and assemblage, conspires to desecrate my internal journey as a new immigrant artist to Canada. Mirroring my own experience, and re-signifying my aesthetics through the view of diversity, I’m now not only breaking down pre-existing materials, reinterpreting and offering them a new form with a new purpose, but also reintegrating my soul to a new country.
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