By Valeria Ascencio
“I am Ana Gómez, visual artist originally from Saltillo Coahuila, I have lived in San Miguel de Allende since 2018. My work is characterized by the use of different media. Usually ceramic. I do a lot of installation and for that I use textiles, clay; in this case of plaster molds, which is what I use to cast ceramic pieces. I use cement, drawing, photography. The project that I present here is the result of support I have from the National System of Art Creators. I started last year and the general project is called Open Form and Negative Space. The exhibition that we are going to see corresponds to the first stage and is called Amorfa. The project consists of an exploration of the limits between what we understand as form, and space. In the case of ceramic pieces, many of them are produced using plaster molds, so it is evident that the object comes out of the mold. And so we have the object as form and the mold is a kind of surrounding space that contains this form, and the space within which we move. So I explore with my project these limits between form, what contains it, and space. What we are going to see in this first exploration that starts above all from the analysis of form and this idea of the inside, the outside, the positive, the negative. So you will see that, in addition to pieces obtained from the molds, which are not properly objects because what interests me is, precisely, giving the mold that visibility as a form and object in itself. So what we get is a series of fragments.
What we get is a kind of fragments, it’ s like mapping all these possibilities, of volumes that come out of a mold and that are not necessarily looking to get a shape that we can recognize or that we can use, but it’ s just like an exploration of the volume, of the form, of the contour, of the inside and the outside, the positive and the negative. That is why I named the exhibit Amorphous: Explorations on the form and the negative space. It makes sense because you see precisely how that limit that sometimes seems very clear to us, in object terms, in reality it is not like that, there is like a small very subtle line that when it is crossed, we realize that the possibilities of the form are infinite.”
“The exhibition opens to the public on Tuesday, January 18, and will remain for approximately 3 months. During this time there will be activities in which the public will be able to participate directly. There will be access to the production as well as the creative process and they can participate in them. We will notify the public when these activities become part of the exhibition. There will also be guided tours. I’ll be here on some days as well to chat a bit with the public and give them a kind of guided tour. Come and visit our workshops and exhibitions. Everyone is invited.”
