Sandra Vasquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes

Sandra Vásquez de la Horra is a Chilean artist who uses playful and surrealistic drawings and paper sculptures to explore shared and untold histories, trauma, desire, fantasies, and taboos. Her work incorporates Latin American and European traditions and explores mythologies, fantastical hybrid botanicals, diverse geographies, and text. She imbues the traditional technique of drawing with tactility by dipping finished drawings in beeswax and challenges our preconceptions of what drawing can be by turning paper into three-dimensional sculptures.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 22 February 2024
Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd

Sandra Vásquez de la Horra is a visionary artist who reimagines the world and challenges societal and cultural norms through her playful and surrealistic drawings and paper sculptures. Her work delves into the depths of human experience, exploring shared and untold histories, trauma, desire, fantasies, and taboos. Born in Chile during the repressive Pinochet regime, she has lived and worked in Germany for decades, incorporating Latin American and European traditions into her unique artistic language.

Her drawings, along with paintings, photographs, and films, are a testament to her diverse interests and artistic language. They explore mythologies, fantastical hybrid botanicals, diverse geographies, and text, written in Spanish, English, Italian, Latin, and German, expanding the possibilities of meaning for each image. Vásquez de la Horra imbues her traditional technique of drawing with tactility by dipping finished drawings in beeswax, challenging our preconceptions of what drawing can be.

Furthermore, she pushes the boundaries of paper art by transforming it into three-dimensional sculptures, inviting us to explore the mysteries and intimacies of our shared experiences. Her work is a testament to the power of art to transcend boundaries and inspire new ways of seeing the world.

Weight: 416g
Dimension: 230 x 207 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781785515316