For New York based artist Scherezade Garcia drawing gives rise to visual codes, which lead her to spontaneous compositions and meanings at the same time. Scherezade Garcia loves stories. The books she grew up with still provoke her imagination, words inspire a continuous production of images – “from The Arabian Nights to Greek Mythology, to Hans Christian Andersen to Crusade tragedies, to El Cid, Don Quijote, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Balzac, to Alejo Carpentier, Allan Poe, Garcia Marquez to so many others, I cannot imagine life without it,” she says. Through a variety of media, Scherezade Garcia evokes in her artworks the physicality of art making while alluding to layered narratives of history.
You say that your work inhabits a baroque universe that coalesces different aesthetics. Tell me a bit about this universe and where do you think it’s coming from?
Through my artworks, I become a storyteller. To tell stories, I embarked on reading, researching, observing, interviewing people, witnessing, experiencing until I have all the ingredients that I need to go from wonder to invent, to fabulate. I build a visual dictionary. Everything starts formally with drawings and grows wings from there through painting, installations, sculpture, animation. This inclusive, multimedia, multi-platform practice informs my voice. My voice belongs to this side of the Atlantic- its new values, new aesthetics. When I work everything goes, there is a concept/narrative behind that needs to be told, and there is not limitations to the possibilities and there is not loyalty to any medium.
