Pilar Cortes Dyer
Pilar Cortés Dyer was born 1982 in Mexico City. Painting became a passion at a young age and she later went on to study Visual Arts at the National School of Arts, part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Considered one of the leading schools of art in Latin America, here she was educated by some of the most acclaimed figures of contemporary Mexican art artists.
Pilar has participated in more than 17 collective exhibitions and 2 solo exhibitions in Mexico, Colombia and the UK, including:
"Micro-Pages" at Bristol UWE Library and Winchester School of Art Library, University of Southampton, Paul Hamlyn Library, British Museum, London, UK... "La Vista" at the Gallery Sector Reform, Guadalajara, Mexico and Fine Arts Cali, Colombia; "Juntas y Revueltas. Mujeres en la Plastica mexicana", Museum of Mexico City.
“My current work explores the concern for the physical phenomena of motion, ethereal traces of memory and a healthy relationship between photography and painting. This project arises from previous practical and theoretical thesis research exploring the relation of the genres of landscape, the abstract painting and the philosophical concept of the sublime.
At the moment, I explore this through the qualities of the water, through the waves. The fleeting and ephemeral moment of the wave; its forms erect images not only to remain in the field of mere contemplation, but to submerge us in a reflection of memory. For me, to observe a painting is to observe it through the construction of our consciousness. Through our memories and imaginations, we enter inside of it, alter it and become part of what is represented.”