Sara Asensio

@creduladevil

Sara Asencsio is a multidisciplinary artist in constant exploration and travelling. Her work is based on a pursuit of beauty in the ugly, the unusual and the disconcerting, portrayed from an aesthetic that combines the endearing and the bizarre.

Sara is also on UK radio station 1020 Radio (@1020_radio) with Planet Dada, an eclectic channel where she shares experimental sounds encompassing a range of styles from jazz to dub.

“My artistic inclination has arisen from self-knowledge, from realising my own being. I have been going through different experiences that have helped me to be freer, leave stereotyped constructions and develop my own dialectic.

Travelling represents a direct source of inspiration in my work and construction as a creative being, it provides me with inaccessible situations that teach me not to hold on to time and to follow my natural rhythm.

My drawing methodology starts from the unconscious. I start to create from scratch without any expectations to give way to new realities. I usually draw in black and white because I want the spectator to build the coloured image by themselves.

The relationship between human beings and nature is an absolute source of inspiration for me. I start from this context to create a completely new and genuine universe, to expand reality and configure new spheres.

I try to eliminate any prejudice and let my inner child come out, the one who allows herself to search for pure experimentation, with no filters. I create from emotion, from the visceral, from the most imaginative plane possible.

My drawings are based, to a certain extent, on the kawaii aesthetic, a Japanese term that means "cute" and is applied to the popular culture of the Asian country.

Beauty is the essence of everything, but what do we consider beautiful? There is standardisation and general acceptance of this concept as "the perfect" and, personally, I am more interested in delving into the ugly, I find it more enigmatic.

From nature, I take elements that, for many, could be unpleasant, such as lichens and fungi. There is a specific phobia of these kinds of textures known as trypophobia.

I also find insects fascinating because of their alien aesthetics, their movements and behaviour.

Photos by Mercedes Polo Portillo ©