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Alexandra Masson's Artist Profile
Alexandra Masson from Caracas, Uruguay
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Artist's Statement

To translate… to take what exists and transform it and thereby transmit a message, communicate feelings that cannot be boxed in by words… express not with words but through tangible staff, as another way to communicate the scars of the soul and enter into contact with what is outside, everything that surrounds us and which sometimes invades us… or not… the subtle environment that cannot be touched…

Art as a tool to understand how the psyche works, to carry out a process of rearrangement and digestion and comprehension which is later expressed in works with feeling and that may possibly generate new meanings. This was the idea which motivated me to convert garbage into beauty –perhaps my inner garbage into outer beauty- by joining broken pieces, using cold feminine ceramic tiles on warm masculine wood to unify the internal broken pieces and create something external that is not-so-broken, stuck on with plaster of paris, an allusion to the icing on cakes, something tasty and sweet. Corroborate the beauty in the garbage external/internal, as a way of approximation to other human beings to see how much coincidence – or not – there is in the perceptions and sentiments.

Paraphrasing the words of American writer Susan Sontag, ¨Permanence…is not one of the more evident attributes of beauty. In art –as opposed to life – it is not considered that beauty has to be necessarily visible, evident, obvious. Notwithstanding how much art appears to be an issue of surfaces and sensory reception, art has become the recipient, in general, of an honorary citizenship in the domain of ¨internal¨ beauty —as opposed to the "external" one. Beauty would thus be immutable, at least when it has incarnated —has been set— under the form of art, because it is in art where beauty as an idea —an eternal idea— incarnates the best. What matters is to find beauty in what had not heretofore been perceived as beautiful (or beauty within ugliness)¨.

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