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 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.