Cristina Burns is a mixed media artist, photographer and set designer from El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain.
She began her artistic career basing her research on the study of colors, on the world of toys and on hyper contemporary materials, where kaleidoscopic images and enchanted microcosms are elements that affect and stimulate the subconscious of the viewer.
Burns’ images vacillate between sweet and fearful, resonating with clichés and critiques, often traversing all of these qualities simultaneously. The artist’s work touches the depths of psychological despair, veers towards turpitude and injects the intense ups and downs of an energetic sugar rush.
As a group, and a set of groups, her works function as the pieces of a puzzle – sharing motifs, figures, compositional strategies, and colors. The clear references to childhood are her way to bring in the viewer natural and instinctive reactions, like those of a child in front of a toy, blending the vision of the adult with childhood who always survives in different ways in each of us.
“My work comes from the assemblage of different elements that after I photograph and elaborate digitally, merging all in one unique mixed media. I use photography as a way to capture my surrealistic compositions, assemblages that reminds the old cabinet of curiosities, which in my imagination are transformed into small enchanted worlds.”
She currently lives and works in Italy, immersed in a world of candies, little monsters, and toys. Cristina’s work has been featured in Vogue Italia, El Mundo, Panorama, Espresso, and exhibited across Europe, USA, and Japan.
Images courtesy of Cristina Burns
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