Michelle Prazak
Bio
(b. 1977) lives and works in Lima, Peru. She holds an MA in Fine Arts from the Byam Shaw School of Art - Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London) where she was recipient to a Bloomberg Scholarship. She has also attended Escuela de Artes Plasticas Corriente Alterna in Lima, and Instituto Lorenzo di Medici in Florence, Italy for studio art, art history and theory. After completing her studies in pedagogy at the University of London, she has been a painting and drawing lecturer at sveral european institutions including University of the Arts in Florence and the Shadwell Centre in London. Her work is represented by several major private and public collections in Perú and abroad, and has been auctioned at the Phoenix Art Museum, at the Museo de Arte de Lima, and at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Statement
Michelle Prazak's work revolves around the intertwining of time, space and movement. It is an investigation on the processes of perception. The folding, the displacement of layers, the illusion of transparency, the simulation of the three-dimensional shape on the flat surface, the offset, the rotation.
Multiple shapes and planes, corners, lines and spaces that are perpetually repeated, displaced, transformed, fragmented and recomposed, and that point to a notion of constant change vs. continuity, of interdependence and reciprocity. It is about feeling space, and perceiving time. In the process, the impossibility of establishing a unique and absolute point of view is underlined; thus provoking the gaze and encouraging it to adopt a potentially new way of seeing.
