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Lizi Sanchez

Date of birth 27.Nov.75
Place of birth Lima-Peru
Country of residence United Kingdom

…Scrutiny of high and low culture takes another turn in the sculptures and
collages of Lizi Sánchez. Sánchez’s sculptures possess an unashamedly frivolous
quality. The weighty materials traditionally associated with sculpture are, more
often than not, eschewed as Sánchez is drawn towards cheap materials such
as those commonly found in hardware and haberdashery shops. Nevertheless,
her constructions, using veneers, pom-poms, ribbons, fabrics, bathroom tiles,
cardboard and polystyrene, possess an authority belying the tackiness and lowly
status of her materials. Are they sculptures, models, facsimiles of monuments?

The rigorous construction and attention to detail evident in this work may go some
way to explaining the contradictory impulses they induce, as might the apparently
formal appearance. Though eschewing the ‘serious’ materials of sculpture and
attendant associations of grandiosity and solemnity, as works of wit and great
ingenuity, Sánchez’s sculptures still demand to be read ‘seriously’.

These hybrid forms are reminiscent of various types of design, which not only
occupy a particular physical space within the city, but also particular places within
a hierarchy of design. The seeming disparity between form and content can be
partly attributed to Sánchez’s fascination for making links between disparate
forms of ornamentation, from those found in architecture – façades of buildings,
urban monuments and parade grounds – to the sort of paraphernalia used for shop
displays. Where the former alludes to a civic identity (and by association tradition
and history), the latter suggests something altogether more transient, such as
the act of shopping (or consuming). Though seemingly worlds apart, one is rarely
experienced without the other. Walking through the city, we invariably pass by
shops, and when out shopping we cannot avoid a notion of the civic.

Sánchez’s collages provide another vehicle through which associations are
made between an amalgam of styles and design. Like her sculpture, these works
possess an unlikely logic and beauty, which, questions the nature of perception and value…

Extract from Ricard Hylton, Once Removed, Unit2 Gallery, 2008

Exhibitions Start Your Collection 2008!, 01.Aug - 20.Sep.08, Contemporary Art Projects, Once Removed: New work about location, 03.May - 31.May.08, Unit 2, Summer exhibition 2006, 17.Aug - 03.Sep.06, Contemporary Art Projects, Fosterart Summer Exhibition 2005, 06.Jul - 10.Sep.05, Contemporary Art Projects


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