Paloma, in your works there is a precise technique, but also a very strong emotional burden, when did you feel that art was your way of expressing what you did not find in words?
Since I have memory, emotions overflow me. Laughter, crying, anger. All in excess, with theatricality, with drama. I remember the four years watching novels with my grandmother or listening to boleros with my mother.
In adolescence I started writing. It was a literature professor who told me that art serves to transform pain into beauty. That premise aroused in me the need to create from my own experiences.
The skin, bodies, gestures, what attracts you from these areas so intimate and natural?
I find a refuge in the intimate. I like to stop in the subtle and exaggerate it, go to the bottom. I am interested in what has power, strength. For me, destruction and creation are the same thing.
The skin seeks proximity, closeness, it is a contact surface with what is outside. It is exposed, contains us and protects us. It is sensitive. That moves me, that the fragile can in turn be hard, resistant. Identify me.
You are a young artist, but with a very defined visual language, how do you live the fact of building your path in a world that usually expects certainties from the beginning?
The immediacy in which we live drowns the doubt and punishes the process, proposes and demands times that are quite incompatible with the creative doing.
My current work is the result of almost 5 years of introspection and questioning, of construction of my identity. I transit that process with great demand, with true anguish. Until I understood that the worst one can do as an artist is to create from expectation.
I learned to live with dissatisfaction, understanding that behind it hides the desire, which is the engine of everything.
In addition to painting, you are healing an art space and accompanying other artists, what drives you to generate community within your practice?
There is something very beautiful in the art that has to do with sensitivity and exchange. The artists spend a lot of time in the solitude of the workshop, so exposing us so exciting us.
I think art exists when seen, shared, celebrated. I discovered that I am passionate to create spaces where this exchange happens. In that sense, curatorship occurs in me as another form of creativity. It allows me to connect with other talents, learn to look, to communicate. I want my work to serve to enhance the work of others.
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