Biography

Beatriz Canfield (1972), Mexico City

Graduated from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Lithography, La Esmeralda.

Beatriz is a sculptor whose work encompasses a wide array of styles, methodology and materials. She has worked with materials such as salt, wood, and metals, as well as having creating a number of video pieces. She is interested in constantly experimenting with techniques and materials and drives herself from a starting point of complete formal liberty.

Beatriz’s work has had a number of exhibitions both in Mexico and abroad, and she has been commissioned by public bodies in a variety of countries to produce work and sculptures for urban environments.

Statement

My basic concept of sculpture is that of exercising my liberty, allowing intuition and desire to interweave, leaving the only limitations and rules as being those that I set myself, which not least causes me great difficulty in setting personal targets of what I’d like to create and how I’d like to achieve it.

Nevertheless, as the years pass, and without leaving that path I established for myself, I have found myself leaving what might be termed formal sculpture (or could perhaps be best described as sculpture that finds itself hermetically sealed, contained within itself) and creating work that exists in one way or another outside of its limits. In this way I’ve begun to explore the territory of installations, where I seem to find more opportunities to expand pieces into an environment and intervene with the space around a particular work. As such I have recently found myself creating huge pieces as well as sculptures designed specifically for urban landscapes, all of which allows me to continue questioning different spaces and what they hold, which I think, for me, is my particular intellectual fascination.