With my practice I explore the encounters in which the certainties of mind are challenged. A study of both visual and cultural perceptions of reality related to collective memories and optical illusions.
Time is a notion appearing in my work constantly. We are always in the time and mental space in-between the past, the future and the here-and-now. There is a continuous time travel between memories and the way we envisage our future. These are fictional representations based on anxieties and or desires from the present time. Politics are relevant as they encourage those reflections of society that are related with sociological and anthropological aspects. Then reflections become mirrors that offer us the opportunity to see ourselves (literally and metaphorically) making the invisible visible. They decompose reality in order to reconstruct it differently.
In the same way misinformation within language and communication is important in my practice. Linguistic misunderstandings such as rumours are tools to generate storytelling, they can create history based in the beliefs of a local community by playing with the certainty or imagination of its inhabitants.
The cultural identity of a community can be based on its habits and traditions. Aesthetics can create a new identity and new ways of understanding a territory, this complex interaction is what I identify and explore in my practice by looking for social interactions that could provide new ways to engage with a utopian vision.
I am interested in working with the ephemerality of place, as a state of complex continuous change, and its context in society. I believe in collaborations to open contextual dialogue from which the role of the artists can be expanded within the wider society.
Seila Fernández Arconada
Time is a notion appearing in my work constantly. We are always in the time and mental space in-between the past, the future and the here-and-now. There is a continuous time travel between memories and the way we envisage our future. These are fictional representations based on anxieties and or desires from the present time. Politics are relevant as they encourage those reflections of society that are related with sociological and anthropological aspects. Then reflections become mirrors that offer us the opportunity to see ourselves (literally and metaphorically) making the invisible visible. They decompose reality in order to reconstruct it differently.
In the same way misinformation within language and communication is important in my practice. Linguistic misunderstandings such as rumours are tools to generate storytelling, they can create history based in the beliefs of a local community by playing with the certainty or imagination of its inhabitants.
The cultural identity of a community can be based on its habits and traditions. Aesthetics can create a new identity and new ways of understanding a territory, this complex interaction is what I identify and explore in my practice by looking for social interactions that could provide new ways to engage with a utopian vision.
I am interested in working with the ephemerality of place, as a state of complex continuous change, and its context in society. I believe in collaborations to open contextual dialogue from which the role of the artists can be expanded within the wider society.
Seila Fernández Arconada