cELIA sOTO
BIOGRAPHY
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Celia Soto is a multi-disciplinary artist, Belgian-Spanish, born in Brussels, recognized for her vividly colored oil painting seascapes ; she also performs as a singer, songwriter, dancer, playwright, actress.
With a Bachelor in Languages and Literatures and a Master in Performing Arts, she has since been showcasing her work in the various countries where she has lived: Valencia, Ostend, Brussels and Venice ; always near water, which has been her most influential subject for a decade, the 'Water Period'.
Her explorations of emotions and themes is influenced by Impressionism, Surrealism, and Pop Art chromatism which guided her observation of water, feelings and identity.
In order to see the vibrancy of nature's colors in her creations, Celia Soto creates her own paint characterized by bright tones softened by pastel shades.
She now focuses her creation on the energy conveyed by color and its emotional impact on the observer. At exhibitions, she likes to show the vibrational effect of color by projecting UV light onto her paintings.
Celia Soto has received the “Bruxelles ma belle” Award at La Maison de la francité of Brussels and has exhibited internationally at Balthasar Brussels, ArtOpenKunst, La Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek, Art Point Fair (Belgium), Centro Culturale Renato Nardi (Venice), Art al Vent (Alicante, Spain).
Her studio is now located in Brussels.
Committed to protecting water, Celia Soto has created a limited edition of thermic bottles painted in Venice: the "Energy Art Bottles"©, in response to the alarming single-use plastic consumption. She also launched her brand of clothing and related merch, encouraging the world to wear and see art daily, which she believes contributes to human evolution towards a more sensitive and therefore healthier society. As a way to stimulate authentic self-expression, she also teaches painting, singing, dancing...
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ARTIST STATEMENT
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CeliA Soto
Art, a key to our feelings, to a real Life.
Oil paint, gold leaves, scriptures, subtle light-reflecting pigments, composing a special energy, visible and non-visible, easing our way towards feeling our feelings.
Indeed, feelings can get blocked in our bodies, for a few hours or for generations.
Through creation, I found my way out of the fog, out of denial and started to give space to my feelings, to myself. I started to be ME, not what I was expected to be.
I profoundly think that Artistic expression is essential for the wellbeing of our society.
Sometimes feelings cannot be expressed by words, they need to be felt and art gives many possibilities of action.
When we express, we liberate and can evolve.
When we don't, traumas stay and tarnish our experience, which we "offer" to the next generation in a never ending cycle.
What will be your legacy ?
LET'S DARE TO FEEL OUR FEELINGS. In the end, we are on this earth for this reason.
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