ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“In this more and more virtual world, where the process is less visible and the gratification for finding fast answers like magic more evident, I try to make a parenthesis creating objects, sculptures and atmospheres that narrate a story of creation, where the process and the result commune.

The utilization of fabric, noble material, familiar, rich in color, texture and sensuality, is the perfect medium to create these narratives. The softness, docility and ephemeral characteristics of the material, like the resistance it projects, inoculate life and innerstregnth. The fabric, element that protects, gives form and defines social, economic and cultural situations, transforms itself into a universal language strongly tied to all human condition.

The objects and found garments are utilized also as elements that take with them their own patina, language and history, may be transmitted by the bodies that once touched them. The placement of these elements of every day life in a anti-natural and non-conventional manner, project a sensation of not belonging and at the same time show the transgression of its own nature. The ensemble of these objects transforms into a codification of forces, situations and memories that unite creating an individual piece. This converts into an exercise of transaction, adjusted to elements that maybe consciously do not have any relation, but function in universal scheme of which we are all participants day to day in our own lives.”

PROFILE

Irma was born in Arcadia, California. She received her degree in Fashion Design and Merchandising. She teaches and continues to study in various workshops in Tijuana, Mexico. A recipient of several awards and grants her work has been widely exhibited throughout Baja California and in San Diego County including four solo exhibitions, featuring her drawings, paintings, installations, and sculptures made of fabric and found garments. Irma has created several major installations in Tijuana and Ensenada, Mexico, the Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, California, and in Havana, Cuba.