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Ximena Lama  was born in Bolivia and grew up in Santiago de Chile. In 2004 she moved to Switzerland and in 2021 returned with her Family to Santiago de Chile. Although she has completed her studies with the Master of Business Administration from the University of Bern, her passion has always been thevisual arts. With her current exhibitions, she now dares to leap to the public eye with her own art and thus allows the viewer to take a look at herself.

Part of herartistic process is to be inspired by the endless fund of press and advertising as you browse through magazines. Sometimes she has a particularvision for a collage and then looks for suitable elements for it. Often, however, spontaneous ideas shape her creative work, she chooses what she addresses, what moves something in her or reminds her of something. A crucial role in the design of their collages plays the subconscious, which manifests itself in the course of the creative process and urges for materialization.

In her collages, she processes searched and incidentally found, designed events and more or less intuitive ones. Material is recombined, single images are used to create new images and new details and details are highlighted. The aesthetics of the materials, i.e. Colors, shapes, texture and contrast are important factors. In terms of content, her collages deal with topics such as the past, longing for the past, diversity of society, consumer society as well as gender resp. the role of the woman.

With her collages, Ximena Lama wants to sensitize the viewer and introduce him to a confrontation with our world today. The various cultural influences of her personal background are also noticeable in her collages: The encounter with the Arab culture in Lama's earliest childhood -her paternal grandparents, of whom she was often visiting -are Palestinians -and her Latin American roots as well as the influences of the European Culture are clearly noticeable in their pictures.

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Andrea Bauer_Curator