Olivia Steele

Descripción del Artista

La artista de luz Olivia Steele (Nashville, 1985) se ha ganado una reputación internacional por sus instalaciones en neón. Siempre simbólicas y a veces irreverentes, sus frases iluminadas se suspenden en tiempo y movimiento en lugares como Berlín, Bombay, Roma, Los Ángeles, Miami, Tulum. Steele utiliza el poder de la luz para crear enunciados simbólicos que impactan y provocan. Su exploración con lo sublime y espiritual se manifiesta en imaginería explosiva bajo el objetivo de demostrar que el arte refleja al espectador y no a la vida misma. La obra de Steele es una síntesis de contraste y contradicción semiótica. Emociones ocultas y fuerzas invisibles cargan las piezas de Steele, siendo parte de su exploración en temas de conciencia y lo divino. Steele encarna al cuenta cuentos tradicional usando al neón como medio contemporáneo. Sus textos son cortos, verdades puntuales que reflejan la ingenuidad (o malicia) de la era digital. Sus estructuras de vidrio son contextualizadas con imágenes discordantes: bombas atómicas, símbolos religiosos, estimulando al espectador. Sus intervenciones en espacios públicos integran al espacio para crear niveles de significado que el observador descubre e integra a su propia experiencia. < ENG “My art is not about what I see… Its about what I invite you to see” are the words of contemporary light artist Olivia Steele, who has earned an international reputation for her spirited public neon happenings. Always symbolic and sometimes irreverent, her neon statements suspend time and motion. The interpretable phrases inhabit spaces of contradictory, confrontational or conciliatory meaning. They crystallize the unity between landscape, semiotics and spectacle that engenders myriad avenues for contemplation. Steele harnesses the power of neon gas to assert symbolic phrasing that allures and provokes. Her expansive career has seen her impart fragments of wisdom and wit all over the globe, from Tulum to Berlin to Mumbai in the form of site-specific land art and indoor installation. Aside from the immediately iconic and often humorous style of Steele’s work, her interventions are pointedly placed in environments that prompt existential musings. Her innate relationship with the sublime and spiritual manifest as explosive imagery where Steele’s opus positions her as one of the most compelling contemporary artists working in her field today. Proving that “it is the spectator and not life that art really mirrors,” Steele’s oeuvre is a synthesis of contrast and contradiction. She encapsulates the contemporary storyteller and uses the traditional medium of neon to form her striking expressions that address the vortex of modernity. Her neon works are short, punctuated truths that mirror the ingenuity (or malaise) of the digital age. Her glass acumens are often paired with incendiary imagery – explosive atomic bombs and religious symbols – that are evocative stimuli for the viewer. Covert emotions and unforeseen forces also charge Steele’s themes where her studies into consciousness and the divine pervade her transformative pieces.

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