BIO & STATEMENT
STATEMENT
My work is interested in the stain as a starting point to reiterate hazy and blurry figures. The human body, the flowers, and the combination of both become positioned at the same level of importance, in a way in which through the color palette and proportions hierarchies disappear.
The surroundings of these objects/bodies play an important part, as they reinforce the idea of the unknown, both in the identities of the characters as well as in the nature of their activities and relations.
The act of painting plays the role of speculation, as these aims of representation never get satisfied, the idea of fidelity between the model and the results do not get completed. The endless try is more important, as it embodies the sensible and poetic.
BIO
"Pia Chavarria (b. 1995 in Alajuela, Costa Rica) is a Costarrican visual artist currently based and actively producing in Brussels. She graduated with an MFA in pictorial design from the School of Fine Arts from University of Costa Rica. Her work surrounds the constant representation of bodies from the point of view of the unknown, the sensible and the performative act of painting. Some of her solo and group exhibitions consists of spaces like “La Salita” in NYC, IFAC arts in NYC, and Lee Projects in NYC; Media Homein Buenos Aires, Argentina; Nos Vemos in San Jose, Costa Rica; the Costarican Museum of Arts; the Second Festival of Performance Arts in Amapala, Honduras; andthe 2021 Hoper Prize Grant finalist. She recently presented her last solo show "In the Name of Llove" in San Jose Costa Rica, in the year 2023.
