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Omschrijving werk

"I am a Colombian-Dutch multidisciplinary artist born in Bogota (1979). I Graduated with a Master in Music specializing in Art Science, from the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (2010), and hold a BA in Fine Art-Sculpture department from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (2008). Studied Visual Arts in Colombia (1997-2001) and Painting in Florence-Italy (2003-2004). I build principally installations, machines and objects using resources such as light and its principles, analog mechanisms and environments; intending to put the audience in a situation in which he/she is active part of the work. My research into light, projection, visual phenomenon and perception brought me to create hybrids, reinvent optical machines and magical installations based on pre-cinema concepts, optical laws and improvised composition. By making use of ancient technologies, recycle objects and materials from households; I aim to question different notions of reality. Working in this way allows me to make public or rural interventions as also experiments in every domestic place or nomad. The link between art and science has leaded me to produce makeshift projections, thus creating an optical link between our concepts and perceptions of the world around us. My luminous works connect architecture to landscape, physics to history, and reunite the ideas of objects to their artistic representation. The majority of these works are inspired on themes coming from Art history, the history of humanity, philosophic or scientific theories which I transform through antithesis reinventing in this way, the new meaning of it." Melissa Cruz Garcia.