Bio:
I'm a Catalan born artist living in Montreal, Canada. In 2007, I graduated from the Centro Nacional del Vidrio, at the Real Fabrica de Cristales de La Granja, in Spain. This is where I was exposed to and taught many glass art techniques. Consequently in 2010, I obtained a Bachelor in Visual Arts from the University of Barcelona in Spain, which allowed me to delve into conceptual art. Over the years, I have participated in more than 30 national and international group exhibitions including: SOFA Chicago 2016, the European Glass Context 2016 in Denmark, and the European Glass Festival 2015 in Poland. Also, I was a finalist and laureate of several awards such as: the 2017 Award for Glass: Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, 2017 Prix Jean-Cartier de la Relève, and the 2019 Prix François-Houdé as well as receiving grants from the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2015, I had my first solo exhibition at the Galerie Espace VERRE in Montreal. Since then, I have done nine solo exhibitions and I have several more planned until 2022.
Statement:
My artistic projects emerge from my own personal perspective and experiences. In my current project My beautiful children and other anomalies, I am questioning maternity and infertility. In doing so, I am exploring physical and psychological anomalies, while reflecting on the female condition and one’s obligation of experiencing motherhood to be considered a real and complete woman.
This series consists of sculptural pieces and installations that combine blown glass, blown flameworked glass, intermittently silkscreen printed fabrics, numerically embroidered fabrics, and fabrics designed by other artists with whom I have closely collaborated with.
It all started with change; an inner transformation. At the age of 13, I was diagnosed with a uterine malformation that endangered my fertility as well as my potential of living as a normal woman. But what is a ''normal'' woman these days? That is the underlying question that I ponder with this work, in an era where one's illness or anomaly is a condition, through its infinite trajectories, that can represent normalcy.
To accept and describe one's anomaly, to show its beauty, to create from the inability of procreating--that was the challenge encountered while assembling the blown glass pieces of this intimate yet public installation. The outcome resulted with deformed pieces that seem ornamental, where the inner space notions and the visceral art became literal.
The presented pieces are themselves a sign of an artistic change, uniting glass and padded textile, which by their transparency and textures reciprocally transform themselves. This is done within a reflection on fecundity and freedom as to define oneself in a constrictive world. Furthermore, my metaphorical and poetic works are the result of the union between my vibrant and colorful artistic discourse reflecting Spain, my country of origin, and the silent sobriety of Canada, my adoptive country.
