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Constanza is a multi-disciplinary artist from Mallorca who loves to create with clay, photograph and to art direct. With a background in both law and advertising, Constanza decided in 2022 to pursue her passion for visual arts. At her home-studio in Valldemossa she explores and creates unique ceramic pieces to celebrate women, their bodies and female sexuality. Aiming to remove silly taboos and being more open about it… putting the subject “on the table”!
My main discipline at the moment is ceramics and photography, but I’m happy to keep exploring other disciplines in the future.
Actually I have been photographing since I was a child, and some years ago I loved shooting in analog when I traveled. It’s a slower kind of photography and allows me to connect better with people and be more in the details.
With ceramics I started to calm that unstoppable call to create and connect with myself… so I started to play with clay! The first classes I took were in 2020 in Mallorca and then I did some months of workshops in Amsterdam. I became addicted to the feeling of being able to create anything I had in mind!
To be honest I believe I’m still on that journey? I feel that I am still learning every day, discovering what I like, what inspires me, what I want to express, what and how I would like to show my creations… it’s been an intense journey finally giving creativity the space it deserves in my life. Deciding to use my hands to create is the best and the hardest decision I ever made because of my background: I thought that not having “studied” art or design would never allow me to pursue a life in the creative world. So after doing two years of creative art direction in advertising in Madrid and New York, many courses of photography and ceramics in Mallorca and in Amsterdam, I decided it was time to “just go for it!”.
I’m inspired by the human body, I think it’s beautiful. I feel that my work is a celebration of women, our bodies and what we’re capable of doing with them. But some people that I admire and obviously influence me are Frida Kahlo, Antonio Gaudí, Michelangelo, Salvador Dali, René Magritte, Ben Vautier, Richard Avedon, Matthew Williamson, Jessica Walsh, Florence Welch, Tamara K. Lloyd-Cox, Ela Fidalgo, Denisse Ariana Pérez…
My studio is in Valldemossa, where I grew up, at a house that belonged to my grandparents. I’m surrounded by nature, which gives me the energy and the space I need to create. Always accompanied by some music, my cup of coffee with cinnamon and some incense burning.
My dream dinner party would be with all the people I love, together with Frida Kahlo, Chavela Vargas, Julio Iglesias, Lola Flores and Adele. Long big table, lots of flowers, candles and Mariachis. I would serve tacos, quesadillas, ceviche and tequila – and of course… margaritas!
A movie I watched recently was “Poor Things” by Yorgos Lanthimos. I thought the movie was original, fun, odd and unique, like the main character Bella – amazingly performed by Emma Stone. Loved how she questioned, provoked and tried to break free from all the prejudices and limitations from her time – also get ready for the beautiful sets and costumes. A book I’m enjoying and just started reading is “The Creative Act: a way of living” from Rick Rubin.
I think I would have liked to be a chef. Love to also be creative with food, mixing colors, flavors… and making other people connect and enjoy food around a table.
I do, I’m two fish swimming in opposite directions! Pisces. Veeeery emotional, dreamy and empathetic. I love to wonder, and can be quite mutable too. Working with an element so tangible as clay helps me keep my “feet on the ground” while allowing me to “fly” at the same time.
