Aída Urbina
Tijuana, 1996
My work is built from a continuous exercise of observation, a practice that allows me to connect with the visible and invisible dynamics of my environment. I consider myself an avid observer, and art becomes my vehicle to translate the reflections and unknowns that emerge from that look at the everyday.
My practice is mainly developed through painting, a medium that allows me to articulate questions about the relationship between landscape -often perceived as unknown or hostile- and home, understood as familiar and close. In this quest, I try to bridge these dualities, exploring how they interact in the construction of our perception of space and our identity.
As a frontier woman, my daily commutes through the city -on foot and by public transportation- have shaped an intimate relationship with the urban landscape. These journeys, which move between movement and pause, become acts of contemplation where I observe shapes, textures, silhouettes and sensations that inhabit my surroundings. The city, with its edges, limits and overflows, is for me a living gear, an inexhaustible source of inspiration that invites me to rediscover details that often go unnoticed.
My work seeks to capture these observations and transform them into a visual language that articulates patterns, traces and stories. When painting, I engage in a constant exploration of the possibilities of the material, seeking that the technique is not only a means of expression, but also an extension of my questions about the territory I inhabit. Through painting, I find a space to reflect and to insert myself, actively, in the narrative of the city and its landscapes.
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I am an artist dedicated to exploring the connection between objects and their presence in specific places that society gives them relevance, or confers them an emotional, historical, aesthetic and sentimental character. I usually ask myself several questions about how other possibilities arise when combining, assembling and joining objects that have no apparent relationship with each other, placed in urban, natural or dreamlike environments, linking it with vegetation and animals that symbolize the existence of an ancient period before the appearance of human beings, geometric structures of civilizations that are present but that we cannot perceive, but that give. I explore my daily life as a resource to generate these artistic creations through photography, writing and the historical references of surrealism, realism and expressionism.
During my attempt to expand the perception of ideas, I implemented techniques in drawing, painting and its various technical modalities, such as acrylic, oil, watercolor, pastel and aerosol, as a medium oriented to urban art. Photography is an essential element that links with writing to generate the concept, while sculpture is used to abstract forms of a specific interest in the work I intend to create.
The work is an instrument capable of generating questions about the reason for the symbols, the reason for the objects selected in certain environments, the notion of solitude, the notion of emptiness, the notion of the monumental, the strong, the weak, are timeless themes that have an identifiable value with the purpose of exploring horizons beyond the sense we perceive of them.
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