Formas de vida: (arte como matéria vivida)

In an attempt to talk about my experimental artistic process I found inspiration from some artists and authors: Donna Haraway, biologist and philosopher, who believes in the power of storytelling as a possibility to reinvent ways of living in a damaged world; Octavia Butler, author of science fiction books that raise questions about patterns that are shown to us throughout our Western society. Maria Lassnig, is a painter who experimented with the artistic movements of her time but even so allowed herself to tell her own internal narratives. And other artists who continue to resist and make art even with all the adversities that consist of being in this world today. Thus, i begin with a research about the different forms of life, a desire to unveil the constant and diverse concepts that are created to define a living being. I made some questions about organic life and artificial life. The differences we constantly create between what is considered organic for what would be mechanical, technological. From this idea a curiosity emerged in thinking of forms of mutation, the human being as a network of chemical reactions that has as final result what we see superficially. I write about some artists who seek new visualities, which contrast what has been determined to us as standard or normal. During the process of investigation I looked for ways to translate this theoretical interest with a visual work thought through the pictorial essence, which has been used for many centuries as illustration of narratives. I use the structure of the painting, like the composition of colors and shapes, and I transport it to 3D image editing software and virtual reality applications to materialize my projects. I refer also to electronic games as a potent learning possibility and as a new way of making art