Fernanda Uski
Tijuana, 1986
Fernanda Uski graduated with a degree in fine arts from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana campus. She received the acquisition award at the Premio Nacional L.A. CETTO Arte Contemporáneo (Tijuana, 2013). He has been part of multiple selections in biennials, group exhibitions and art fairs. His most recent solo exhibition is entitled Attitudes to Nature at Casa Equis (Mexico City, 2023). He was also part of the group exhibition entitled Cuarto Colectivo at Proyecto H (Mexico City, 2023). His work is part of the private collections of LinkedIn, San Diego State University and L.A. CETTO Arte Contemporáneo. His work is developed mainly in the disciplines of painting and drawing. He lives and works from the city of Tijuana, Mexico.
statement
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 I explore my daily life as a resource to generate these artistic creations through photography, writing and the historical references of surrealism, realism and expressionism.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.