Katia Santibañez

By structuring the expressiveness of nature, is the continuous theme that binds together Katia Santibanez's work. She sees the world as a prismatic scheme, which she decides to study and converse with, through the means of abstraction and introspective painting. Santibanez studied art and philosophy in Paris where she was born in 1964. She has consistently explored the visual collaboration of repetition and correspondence as it is implicitly found in natural environments and human architecture. One of her famous exhibitions, aptly titled 'The Visible and the Invisible', swiftly summarises the approach she adopts in her paintings. She sees an unspoken sense of relatedness, continuously at play between the individual mind, and the archetypes which define nature as artful constructions. She deploys her work inside the spaces where the viewer must reposition their own sense of connectedness to location. The painting can then reveal a fascinating intersection of patterns and contrasts, bound together by a unified conceptual thread: the metropolis versus nature. Santibanez connects the thematic polarities of order and chaos, balance and composition in the abstractions she creates. She reshapes reality into moulds of replications, which echo the systems of potentiality which sentient beings share with nature. The engaging intensity of her works, strengthens a sense of wonder in the viewer, who can then, willingly participate in the echoing mystery of her paintings.