Mercedes Baliarda
Mercedes Baliarda’s work has entered numerous reputable public and private collections, from the Modern British Collections at the British Library, the University Art Collection, the Artists’ Books Collection at Chelsea College of Art & Design Library to several private collections in Britain and Argentina. Graduating from MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2009 Baliarda has recently exhibited at the ICA, the Triangle Space at Chelsea as well as the Centre for Recent Drawing. Flowers are commonly perceived as decorative and unchallenging. In a contemporary context their accessible beauty means they are extensively used metaphoricaly within art. Baliarda’s x-ray like drawings document the death of these flowers and attempt to elevate these small tragedies as the images become tributes or memento mori.
Through both realms for ever (nËš6)
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Drawing
25cm x 29.7cm
Series of graphite drawings on layered tracing paper
Available framed, Series
Baliarda’s drawings opperate through a continuous play between the subject and its form. A deferral of the moment of death itself is realised through the subjects animation into discourse and documentation.
A tension existing within the work between meaning and process; the flowers dominant signification as a sign of beauty and the inevitable condition of death that is required to complete the work.
£480
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