BERTHA ALICIA AGUILAR GARCIA

I am mesmerized with the drift of life. As an artist, I am concerned with capturing and presenting it; life as a flow, containing fragments of uncertain duration, of perceptions, thoughts, emotions, awareness and blackouts. In that sense, I am concerned with the void and the bridge between perceiving and thinking, in that elusive moment in which viewing is comprehending. I am compelled to generate artworks that can offer to their observers or participants a reformulation of their past experience through a different tactile approach.

 

My work is deeply affected by immediate environmental encounters, newspapers, dissimilar objects, books, artworks, all meshed together by the unexpected ties of affection and causality. However, most of them show on their surface the passing of time. In them, I try to portray the dialectics between rescue and oblivion, remembrance and forgetfulness. These encounters are re-created in my work through the use of a variety of tools and materials that range from the object itself to its representation through the digital time based mediums and the verbal. 

 

Nowadays, I am interested in generating a sensuous space to relate and think about the concepts of revolution, utopia, war and violence.