Naty Lopez-Holguin
Portsmouth
Using materials to convey points of human experience; presenting the low value, everyday in a transformed state, to simultaneously instigate associations and interpretations.
We all see big things, we all see bright things; it can’t be helped! …
What about small things?
As John Berger proposes “we only see what we look at” and … “looking is an act of choice” (1978)
“The idea of space is a complex phenomenon in Naty’s work … the slippage between its solid forms and their collapse into insubstantiality. Scale is never to be relied upon in her work, things don’t look the size they are, and neither is materiality to be trusted” (Dr M. Walker 2023)
For the last eight years, I’ve been mainly working with tumble-dryer fluff – a commonly discarded material full of associations.
Through material transformation, the soft fluff becomes solid; layers upon layers where the short fibres interlink, pulling as they dry, forming an always changing outcome. The forms are influenced by plastic packaging, where the fluff is restricted within, giving a ‘manufactured’ feel as a metaphor for social constrains.
Using materials to convey points of human experience interest me, simultaneously instigating associations and interpretations.
What’s known space? … in a social rather than formal sense … best expressed by Evi Soukara’s words (visitor to my latest exhibition, 29th Sep 2023):
“Thank you for a big big life lesson that you have passed me through your art! That nothing and no one belongs in the bin. We need to think multiple times and change viewpoints and perspectives before we discard any item or person! There is potential around us waiting to be discovered and transformed.
Have a beautiful day!”
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