Statement

I have named my new collection 'Extra-aesthetics', a way to see the other side of reality. It exists as a synthesis of what we can perceive in reality, it is the summary of the urban landscape.

The major cities of Mexico (such as Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey,  among others), are becoming a reflection of the world's greatest capitals. However, these cities belong to a developing country, where chaos and disorder can be clearly seen, both in an underdeveloped aesthetic and a lack of planning. To walk day by day through one of these cities creates a continuous journey where the individual loses awareness of the ordinary and chaotic, that which humans create for their own existence, thousands of artworks are found interacting in that atmosphere called urban landscape. Ultimately everything is  aesthetic, but at the same time terrifying.

The objective is to show to the spectator not the beauty of an urban landscape, nor to emphasize the lack of wealth in a developing country. Instead I show what is invisible in a routine day at the big city, a vicious interpretation of daily life. It is as simple as standing in the city, closing the eyes and listening to what is being produced by this concrete mass. What is seen? Something similar to the paintings I create.

My production emphasizes the use of enamel paint as an urban element. I enjoy giving a plastified and synthetic appearance to my paintings through multiple layers of paint, capricious lines seek to remain where they belong.

As previously stated, my paintings are a synthesis of an urban landscape, therefore they exist within an absence of color. To provide maximum information using the least amount of recognizable images, the result is a painting where aesthetic and sensibility play the most important role.

Olivie Ponce, (2008) New York, NY.