Josefina Concha’s work has been concentrated in the use of a metapictorial resource. Instead of painting, she sews, and explores the qualities of the thread, trying to recreate gestures that go from the saturation of the matter to the synthesis of the line, and from the expressiveness of the stain to the definition of the image, evermore indefinite and evocative.
The building of her work is articulated through the investment of a material (the thread) on a piece of cloth and the time dedicated to sew it. This is made visible in the superimposition of weaves that in short will generate a thickness (body) and a sensation of volume, dominated by the treatment of color and optical mixtures, to which she turns with the eagerness of creating suggestive images that appeal to the ephemeral and briefness.
The work ventures between the rapprochement and the estrangement towards painting: rapprochement for the intent of simulating it and estrangement for the will to replace it.
Courtesy of Praxis International Art.
The building of her work is articulated through the investment of a material (the thread) on a piece of cloth and the time dedicated to sew it. This is made visible in the superimposition of weaves that in short will generate a thickness (body) and a sensation of volume, dominated by the treatment of color and optical mixtures, to which she turns with the eagerness of creating suggestive images that appeal to the ephemeral and briefness.
The work ventures between the rapprochement and the estrangement towards painting: rapprochement for the intent of simulating it and estrangement for the will to replace it.
Courtesy of Praxis International Art.
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