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Cristina (USA) an artist’s statement
My works are a materialization of imagination, a reconstruction inside out of what is deeply laying in mind. Interested in dreams, as the field I consider the greatest exponent tool we have to show our most real ‘I¨, I like to confront what belongs to our subconscious parcel with the surrounding reality, exploring the hidden world that resides inside human being minds. In words of the renowned psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, “contained emotions and individual life experiences are buried and come up through dreams¨. And so, I aim to recover from this underworld of traumas, passions, fears and desires the foundations to built my compositions, juxtaposed in areas between fiction and reality. I analyse, re-interpret and transfer these corners of the psyche to a material plane, through a storytelling creative process, in which each work, reflects a story that is a part at the same time of a bigger play running in my head. While in certain occasions, my works showcase misconfigured landscapes with no subject, more often, this shows up, and does it taking the leading role in a story, that is not explicitly shown, but suggested, just like incomplete sentences, where takes part the interaction with the spectator, being this led to unravel the plot and create his own story developed in my particular world. Within a disquieting atmosphere of confusion and intrigue, 96
Hipnagogic Allucination