From my experience as a psychoanalyst of children and through the games with Play-Doh, I found a hidden desire to work forms from nothing. I started with tiny children's figures that increased my interest in sculpture, that is how I jumped from the Play-Doh to Clay, and today this is the material of my choice for the modeling.
In every encounter with Clay my emphasis is to reveal figures and forms that I anticipate, that lead me from a nothingness to a mysterious and unknown figure that emerges once again to question me about my unconscious.
My process of creation is based on the same principles underlying the emergence of the subject of the unconscious where the imaginary, the symbolic and real give me the opportunity to present a unique and unprecedented work of art.
Similar to naive artists, my art is inspired by everything around us human beings, although without any kind of technique, no previous academic studies, only an attempt to capture the moment between the nothingness and shape which are constitute a Language.
Ultimately, I am aware that many interpretations always come from the Other.
Recent exhibition:
Art Basel 2010
Casa Wynwod
2135 NW 1st Court
Miami, FL 33127
2nd to 5th, December 2010
Bio
Xiomara Ponce was born in Caracas-Venezuela and studied Anthropology and Psychoanalysis in Central University of Venezuela and Florida Center for the Teaching and Research in Psychoanalysis,
she currently lives in Miami.
Her work as sculptor can be seen at her private studio in Miami.
Xiomara is preparing her next individual exhibition of small-scale sculptures.
