Isabel Oliva

Artist Statement 

           I feel unhuman sometimes, I feel so violated by evil. I feel evil

           I feel a twitch, I feel something in my mind telling me yes yes,

           I want to say no but there is nothing we can do. The transformation

           The mutation my heart beat slowing down, my flesh drying up and melting

           Off my skin. The skin under my eyes are turning green. It wavers it twists it

           Bends it screams it moans it roars! I roar I am still myself but I am not

          Human I am something else. The manifestation the transferring from the

          Metaphysical to the physical world, I can feel it in the walls, in the rooms

          In the seats how everything feels dense.

 

 

it's very interesting how emotions can materialize into something supernatural, when I walk into a new space I can sense happenings or energies that haunt that space .In my home growing up there was a lot of envy, malicious intentions, hatred between people that I noticed but was never openly discussed. I believe when these feelings or intentions become strong they begin materialize into something supernatural, they become very powerful energies that take over an environment even the people around them influencing events and creating chaos. I have began calling these energies Phantoms, These sources are constantly changing, becoming worse and worse or ameliorating themselves. Growing morphing and contaminating spaces I am interested in how far these transformations can go. In recent works I began exploring the relationship between these untangible unseen monstrous energies and my environment

using lots of furniture and wooden materials. Some of my artworks have hurt me in the process of creating them which I think is interesting. I have also discovered that I use lots of furniture in reference to a home but really I am referencing myself in a way because I have always believed that my body is my home, I would like to explore further the relationship between myself and these phantoms and if possibly these energies and me have become one.  

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Artist List

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Janine Antoni

Gina Pane

Pippilotti Rist

Andre Hasler 

Ivana Basic

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 Project Proposal

​I would like to create a sculpture that has human like characteristics and has the impression of a life form having been mutated. I will be using wooden chairs that I have collected, wax, fabric, porcelain, and fleshy materials that invoke the impression of skin. I want to create something very enticing and desirable yet eerie and repulsing. I want to show the supernatural life form latching onto a domestic/human environment slowly morphing into something different. Displaying the merging of these two opposite things and its outcome.