Ana Sanchez

Ana Sanchez - Thought

Technique: Recycled advertising poster paper, shaped and compacted.

Artist Biography: Ana Sánchez was born in Salamanca, Spain in 1964 and currently lives and works in Madrid. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid and has developed an artistic career of great relevance.Ana Sanchez's work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in places such as Madrid, Vitoria, Barcelona, Paris, Malta and Belgium, among others. In addition, her work has been awarded several scholarships and prizes, such as the Painting Scholarship of the Spanish Academy in Rome in 1999 and the Casa Velázquez Scholarship in Madrid in 2000.Her work has been presented at national and international fairs such as ARCO, CIRCA, FOROSUR or ESTAMPA and has been acquired by prestigious public and private collections, such as the Contemporary Art Collection of the Spanish Embassy in Tokyo, the Collection of Print of the National Library and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Madrid, among others.Ana Sanchez's work is characterized by a refined technique and a great sensitivity in the capture of light and color. Her painting is developed around nature and its relationship with the human being, creating landscapes full of life and energy that transmit a great emotion to the viewer. His work reflects a deep knowledge of visual language and a commitment to experimentation and innovation.

 

The series 'Posters' is a praise to language and communication that proposes a new encounter with the word, which here is used as a pictorial and symbolic object, being stripped of its semantic and narrative value. The basic materials for the construction of these inarticulable images are texts of advertising posters, with them I create images with the desire to blur the boundary between reality and fiction, building a literary flow not governed by the rules of language. Resorting to the dissection, tearing and restructuring of words, I look for an impossible narration, which bets on a poetic, musical and emotional communication. The letters and phrases are destroyed and re-created to the point of becoming indecipherable and yet close, recognizable... evoking landscapes of thought. Like a puzzle, where the words, broken and blurred, show us the coexistence between the logic of classical narrative and the logic-logic of contemporary abstract thought. This textual and lyrical 'discourse' turns the lyrics into something completely abstract that stimulates or encourages us to enter into different thought processes; to look at the work as if listening to music, without trying to develop a process of narrative comprehension or intellectual apprehension. These are decontextualized texts, whose new 'syntax' is strange and at the same time close to us, enveloping us in confronted feelings of familiarity and discomfort, provoking a certain strange attraction. This "broken syntax" transforms the meaning into an unstable and polysemic one, and thus, by deconstructing the form, and with it the concept and the meaning, opens the possibility for the image, the narrative, and the power of evocation to be woven with an unexpected magic. It is another way of telling, a new relationship with language that implies a mental restructuring that creates another relationship with narrative time... and also, paradoxically, with sensation and subjectivity. Perhaps it is a matter of embarking on a personal journey, of creative nomadism, of imagining a mobile frontier, from which to play at thinking differently.