(b 1979Spain. Lives and works in Brussels)
Transcribing her interior world in paint, Laura Basterra Sanz creates intuitive and naïve compositions of personal significance. For her, each colour resonates with a shade of emotion; each shape is evocative of a mood, be it sharply angled or gently curved. Her collected canvases reveal the changeable nature of being – some bold and brightly hued, others muted and muddied – which together aim at revealing the many shifting facets of a single self.
“The way I express myself is pretty intense and polarised, extreme at times, and emotional. Colours can be bright, light, bold, pure, clear, honest and direct. I use a lot of yellow. I like to think that I add a little bit of the sun when mixing my colours. I could say that I need every element or colour to exist for itself, and then collaborate with others…When I'm more relaxed colours will fade to grayscale, the in-betweens of pure light and the utter darkness.”