Hilda Palafox is known for glorious, colorful murals and confident, comfortable paintings of women, but an appreciation of her ceramics gives extra insight into an artist who exquisitely portrays the fragile and the sturdy. In making vessels that can stand alone or hold something special, she continues work as a carrier of the material, as well as the intangible. She herself is like a vessel, channeling new ideas, people and places, portraying the humble and the mighty, expressing life’s dualities in work that is approachable, but full of depth. I spoke with the Mexico City-based artist who just showed her newest series, Un día a la vez, at Thinkspace Projects.
Gwynned Vitello: In a previous interview, you remember a tarot reading where the moon card came up frequently. I don’t know anything about tarot cards, but that seems so fitting. For me, it recalls phases of the moon, and your images portray so many moods in what look like simple round shapes. Were you surprised at what the cards revealed?
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة Winter 2022 من JUXTAPOZ.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك ? تسجيل الدخول
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة Winter 2022 من JUXTAPOZ.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك? تسجيل الدخول
Noelia Towers
Empathy and Enlightenment
Nehemiah Cisneros
Legend of a Wicked City
Joy Yamusangie
Primary Colors
rafa esparza
A Sense of Generosity
Eric Yahnker
The Serious Side of a Joke
Ivy Haldeman
Notions of Slippage
Timothy Lai
Painted Syncopation
Katherine Bernhardt
Everlasting Butter
Sabrina Bockler
Conversing From Within
The Burn to Rebirth
Valencia, Spain During Fallas