Huasteca Paula

We are a landscape of all we have seen.
-Isamu Noguchi

Rooted between the limits of abstraction and figuration, the work of Paula Cortazar (Monterrey, 1991) is part of a narrative defined by the production of a sculpture of stylized forms and simplified that represent and equate vestiges and processes found in nature.
Huasteca presents the most recent body of work by the artist intrinsically related to the processes that arise and occur in the landscape adjacent to his home and studio, located in the Parque de la Huasteca in Monterrey.

The evolution of the artist’s artistic language designates sculpture as a way to explore the world and understand the environment of our spatial awareness. Formally, the pieces conforming the exhibition are characterized by being representations based on huge blocks of limestone and polished marbles, which have been discarded commercially and subsequently rescued by the artist to be directly sculpted in the studio. Cortazar manages to insert itself into a historical-artistic line based on sculptural production not reduced to the creation of objects isolated, but as entities in close relationship with the space that surrounds them.

The exhibition does not intend to create direct representations of the orography, topography and vegetation that surrounds, but to evoke the intrinsic biological, social and relational processes of which they are a part. At first glance, the exhibition presents a sculptural garden in which we have typical elements of the native flora of the Northeastern region of Mexico. The sculptural garden that the artist presents to us is characterized with a lightness, dynamism and deep understanding of its theme.

Cortazar manages to capture this real sense as the most alive essence of those beings with whom she lives daily. At the same time that it reaches a formal connection with the heritage of the history of the sculpture, it manages to formulate a crucial concept for the beliefs of many traditional cultures that embody the connection between the human being and the earth.

Curator: Alberto Ríos de la Rosa