Artist Bio
The ceramic sculptures of self-taught Chilean artist Paz G house the tales of their family’s lives and lineages, threading the connective tissue of memory across experiences of precarity and displacement. Most recently, Paz’s work is driven by sound, merging song and form inspired by resistance music and the New Song Movement of Chile. Paz was recently featured in Bay Area Now 9 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (2023); Personal Alchemy, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts (2020); Ceramic Interventions, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA (2022), and Slip Tease, Kasmin Gallery, NY, NY (2023). They were a finalist for the 2024 SF MoMA SECA Award.
Statement
Paz’s ceramic sculptures serve as offerings for her ancestors as well as meditations on their queerness, their history with migration, and the exploration of their spiritual practice. In Rhythm of the Divine and Secretos de Familia, the tunnel forms function as a spiritual and familial meeting place. Paz expands on Rhythm of the Divine as a meeting of the self and says the piece is about “... the feeling that comes when you’ve been living two lives and they finally merge.”
https://pazgstudio.com
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