Begmont (Belén García Montoya)

Begmont (Belén García Montoya) - Where Have We Put Our Lives?

Technique: Mixed

Artist Biography: Belén García Montoya (Gijón, 1975). Graduated in Fine Arts in Seville (1993 - 1998), although she studied her first years at the University of Salamanca. Begmont is the pseudonym she uses to sign her work, which is irremediably linked to her, since she was born as such. Urban art, comics and illustration are at the genesis of his aesthetics. He usually builds scenes full of color, formed by one or several pieces, where a story is told and where there is no aesthetic separation or Theme. He tries, from his works, to make available to the viewer a game between language and drawing and if possible, that this game leads to reflection. His pieces are based on the word, and the word on drawing and color, thus creating a constant and difficult to separate interweaving. The characters function, at times as alter egos of the author herself and at other times they simply show or establish cartographies of those things in life related to emotions, fears, dreams, expectations, everyday life.... This is why her work can be defined as personal and intimate with the desire to settle in the viewer's consciousness, without giving respite to evasion.

 

In the spaces, among the things... I wanted to talk about routine, about our daily life. I wanted to give it a more poetic and aesthetic sense, turning it into something more bearable and bearable, as if the routine did not seem routine. As if the routine did not seem routine, and in that effort, I found myself with things! Yes, the things, all those objects, clothes, junk, junk ... that share space and time with us. They are silent witnesses of our days followed by other days, days full of problems, misunderstandings, hopes, fears, joys? Begmont