Welcome to the Shapeshifting world.
My name is Manuela, I was born in 1996 in Caracas, Venezuela.
I am a Sculptor and visual artist, currently living and working in Amsterdam.
I work with life-casting, sculpting, spfx, painting and garment making.
In recent years I started to navigate an array of disciplines in combination with my sculptures, such as photography, video director, and performance art.
Each piece unravels unspoken truisms of the majesty and mystery of inhabiting a human body.
The human body has been my primary subject for many years, and all my probing has brought me to the curious realization that we know nothing: the eternal, fascinating mystery of the human experience is simultaneously daunting and empowering.
I see humanity as a singular source of energy, separated by a perishable membrane we call Body.
We are a composition of perfectly crafted processes over unimaginable aeons.
A foundation of calcium from supernova remains, parallel to a stream of liquid iron and oxygen,
covered by a delicate light feeding membrane we call “skin”
connected to a system of sensorial roots wired by an organ with consciousness we call "brain".
However, this engine appears to be only the vehicle for this mysterious energy to develop personality, memory, and intuition. The vehicle for the unnamable to experience duality from a human perspective.
My imaginary playground is the boarder between what we know; self-awareness and experience, and everything outside of these constructs; the mystery.
It’s a thin line, yet unending.
It divides life and the after-life, the body from the soul, the synchronicities from cause and effect, the perishable and temporary qualities of the being from the infinite and eternal. As a wanderer, I prefer to search for the nexus of these two worlds.
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