Hilda Benchetrit
Lives and works in Maracaibo.
Fragmentation, as a concept of my artistic language, is understood as multiplicity and diversity of its morpho-aesthetic elements; through the collage the work develops as a complex puzzle… Collage is a game of memory, it is the superposition of signs that refer to a new meaning; this technique offers the possibility of playing with space and time and the optical contrasts of form and texture which produce works that can generate complex and ambiguous readings.
The theme of the city has been present since my first works and has been a constant through the different stages of my career, influenced perhaps by the profound attraction that she has always exerted over me and by my approach to its image from my perspective as an architect. I assume the city in an ambiguous way, far from specific referents, a city that synthesizes the cities I have known; a city reminiscent of memories of earlier times.
Women appears in my work in the 90s, as a reflection of their struggles and vindications, but also as an ontological vision, which allows me to discover my own mirror image. To paint women being a woman, presents other implications of meaning, different from the innumerable and diverse examples that History of Art offers on the masculine way of representing women.
