IB Visual Arts LINCOLN SCHOOL Costa Rica: MARIA FERNANDA QUEVEDO Lincoln School Costa Rica 2915

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

MARIA FERNANDA QUEVEDO Lincoln School Costa Rica 2915

Artist Statement

by Maria Fernanda Quevedo

Like I mince chicken, I mince questions. I’ve thrown paint. I’ve taken photographs. I’ve made collages. I’ve made prints. I’ve drawn naked people. Ultimately, I’ve allowed all of the discomfort flow out of my body and my mind.

As a child I never questioned the motifs or driving forces of our lives, I just lived without hesitation and acted upon what people expected from me as a decent young lady. As time went by, I grew up to realize that some things didn’t make sense. Specifically the treatment and exposure of women in society accompanied by all the repressed feelings and questions I had never dared to ask or even disbelief. I placed myself in a position of anxiety in which I only wanted answers for unanswerable questions. Through art, I found a process in which I could clench a concern with my own hands and try to make sense out of it. Art has fundamentally become my medicine.

As an artist, I’ve created a variety of works that speak to me and whoever is watching them. I’ve never intended to recreate what I see, always attempting to distort reality, portray what I imagine and release all the tension that lives within my uncertainty, qualities of the art movement: expressionism. After finally placing myself as an artist in the expressionist branch, I was able to find influential artists such ad Andrew Salgado and Agnes Cecile, who inspired me to utilize a free brush stroke that would most effectively represent my inner thoughts on painting. After creating and experimenting different media to communicate my concerns, I finally understood what art means to me.

Life is art. I’ve acknowledged that my mere existence is art.