Valeria Mancera

I particularly like to talk about mediums in terms of structuring because when I’m working, my instinct is to try and build and to fill —to fill something until it feels right. I truly enjoy drawing. I did some sculpture for a bit too. But I am the freest when working with paint. I stand firm with the belief that the language of painting is a never-ending search. The deconstruction of ideas and methods are not finite, and don’t mean exhaustion. It simply means examining it critically. That’s what makes painting such a funny thing. Gerhard Richter once said that you have to be obsessed for you to be a real painter, because it is pure idiocy. And I fully laugh at that statement because it is true, a true obsession doesn’t end, it’s a loop.

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