Alessandra Sequeira

Country where you live:
- Costa Rica
City where you live:
- San Jose
Since a long time ago and particularly in the postmodern world, human consciousness is conditioned by the forms of thought, the censorship of emotions and the material world, where they assume the main role and are the primary focus of people. In this way the true identity is disrupted and the adapted identity begins to appear.
As a consequence, the human race, confused and stripped of its true identity, abandons the connection with its essence and remains subject to identification with these forms. The resultant is the accumulation of knowledge and the absence of wisdom. We fight for progress and accumulation leaving aside evolution.
My artistic processes have led me to recognize myself -on a symbolic level- as a drop, as a center, as the same particle with which the universe has been created. It has been a constant exercise, a path of recollection and expansion. My trips, as I usually call them, go through states of consciousness that encompass spaces from biology, energy, synergy, quantum, the cosmos and spirituality.
In the process, this kind of intuitive method emerges, where I look for and explore the origin of being, the essence of life, and consciousness.
This has allowed me to reach a deep self-knowledge where I seek to take the viewer to questions that display their own potential.
Each work has an individual character but as a whole, in the interconnections all are part of an organism, of living matter, thought and wisdom. In each piece we can understand that we are not isolated or separated beings, although for the mind it seems that yes. On a deeper level there is a connection with the essence of life itself, pure consciousness.
It is my voice and my intention, it is the call. The desire to turn my work into space and spaces where the singular expression of being, the stillness, the creative divinity, are seen and the viewer can identify, connect, reflect and be able to listen.
Understanding that the Essence of Being is the source that nests in us, is the Origin and the End.
The transcendence in this revelation is to understand that, the unconditioned consciousness underlies all forms and can enter the world through us. It is the unmanifested that permeates the manifested.
Disidentifying means recovering our true identity. It is the definitive reunion to manifest being in doing.




Alessandra Sequeira
I was born in Costa Rica, in 1969.
Studied graphic design in the Universidad de Costa Rica, and publicity designing in the Universidad Veritas.
Multidisciplinary artist, specializing in drawing, painting, installations, textile art, and modeling relational art experiences. Have exhibited in over 150 collective exhibitions and over 20 solo art shows in the past twenty years, in museums, galleries, and art fairs all around the world.
Inspired in quantum physics, metaphysics, biology, philosophy, spirituality, consciousness and nature among other subjects.
WORKSHOPS:
1993-19197, entasis in figurative painting in oil and acrylic technique, with Guillermo Porra, Costa Rica.
2005, Blown glass techniques, Museum of Glass, Monterrey Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
2005-2010, Welding apprentice with Arturo Porras , Costa Rica.
2009, Art Therapy, with Marcela Valdeavellano, Costa Rica.
2015, Muralsim apprentice with Carlos Capelan, Costa Rica.
2019, Manipulation of fiber textile weaving in large scale formats, with Idoia Cuesta, in Madrid, Spain.
2019, Reuse of materials for social sustainability workshop with Agueda Leon, Mexico.
IMPORTANT EXHIBITIONS:
Phantom Perspectives, FaB, UK
MAC, Panama, Art show and Auction, representing Costa Rica, 2019.
El Attico Gallery solo exhibition, called "The Consciousness I Inhabit", Guatemala, 2019.
Museo del Traje, Contemporary Textile Art Biennale, representing Central America in small format category, Spain, 2019.
Museo de Cartago, solo exhibition, "Origin and Essence", Costa Rica, 2018.
Art Flow Gallery, solo exhibition, "Consciousness", Costa Rica, 2018.
SOCIAL ACTION
Relational art Experiences:2009-2020
Organized and guided relational art experiences and workshops with diverse groups, among them: Students from UNIS University in Guatemala. Fisherman Community in Playas del Coco, Costa Rica. Elder Home in Cartago, Costa Rica. Rahab Foundation (prevention of human traffic), Costa Rica. Hogares Siembra, (prevention of cold abuse), Costa Rica. Rozas Botran Foundation, (learning disabilities), Guatemala. Museo Municipal de Cartago, (learning disabilities workshop, Costa Rica. Fundamentes Foundation, ( high risk children comunities). Costa Rica.
Auctions:2009-2020
Participated in numerous auctions through her career, such as:
SOS NICARAGUA Human Rights, Arte en Mayo- Guatemala, VALOARTE- Costa Rica, APRENA -Costa Rica, MAc- Panama, among many others.
CONTACT:
(+506- 88352696)
alessandraseq@gmail.com
www.aless.net
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