Statement

My work comprises mostly painting and installations, and both are based on the manipulation of the material through folds, cuts, superpositions creating shapes until a balance in the composition is achieved.

In this creation process, very often I combine painted material on canvas with other different materials via collages and/or assemblies with ‘found objects’ or with slightly manipulated objects if the final composition requires it so. This juxtaposition of different materials also offers a blend of textures that enriches the piece through impressions of shadows, folds and creases.

For me, the physical engagement with the material to transmit experiences and ideas is vital. Through investigating the material and its expressive possibilities I create works that suggest objects, places or emotions that I have previously experienced and that its unhurried observation triggers a reconnaissance of the object, the place or the emotion that inspired it via new paths of the imagination, in this sense the titles of the works either give a hint or are clearly a declaration of intentions.

Bio

Silvia Lerin is a Spanish visual artist based in London. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain).

She made several solo exhibitions in Germany, Spain, and the UK, particular highlights were the ones she made in the Sophien-Edition Gallery in Berlin (Germany) and in the Outpost Gallery in Norwich (UK).

During all that time she has received numerous awards and grants, outstanding among others was the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant of New York in 2013 which brought her to London, where she decided to stay, and in 2017 she was awarded The Annex Collection Award in the UK.

There exist numerous artworks by her in various public buildings and many private collections throughout Spain and abroad.

en_GBEnglish (UK)