Elizabet Cerviño

Elizabet Cerviño: rituals of nature

Elizabet Cerviño’s work is multimedia as it spans across painting, installation, video and performance. It starts from the inspiration found in the transient and the fragile. It brings up questions surrounding that lost point of union between the body and the environment, nature and culture, spirituality and materialism. It’s through her work that Cerviño tries to understand what of the ephemeral can be perpetuated and present in tradition and ritual. Her spirituality manifests itself in ritual and craftmanship, creating a trinity that allows her work to be more harmonious, independent and connected to a larger whole. Elizabet Cerviño often works with natural elements, water, mud, rain and fog. These are seen as material manifestations and forms of the natural world. They embody the inevitable changing nature of everything. This reflects human thought and action, often unstable like the elusive forms of these natural elements. Cerviño’s performance is often a continuation of her pictorial meditations. The lines are blurred between what parts of performance and what parts of paintings adhere to the very definition of each respective media. It’s within this ambiguity that her works breathe, representing the act of creating. Her main reference is nature and the poets that channel the force of nature who in turn create a sense of identification and complicity within the artist.