Valentina Avila is a 19 year old artist and student from Manta, Ecuador, she makes handmade, and digital pieces of art, such as drawings, gratifies, and even brand logos, despite her young age, she has been able to develop logos for local brands as well as helping them in their advertising material. Also, some of her own art is portrayed in the form of graffiti in some parts of town. She mainly has an artistic inspiration coming from the beach and the ocean.
As an artist, where do you find inspiration to portray your ideas into art?
It’s true that many times we find ourselves blocked at the moment of translating an idea into our art, but what we don’t know is that that inspiration is there at all times. As an artist, I personally believe that inspiration always comes to me every time I am in a free place with many sounds, colors, objects that make my ideas flow and thus leading me to the last conclusion of how I will translate those ideas into my art.
In which ways do you think street art influences society?
Throughout the centuries that society has changed, I can say that art has too. Today we can see that we no longer see art only in museums, theaters, galleries but also in the streets. Times ago, street art was defined as an act of “vandalism” but now it has come to influence society in such a way that certain artists seek to transmit thoughts, social and cultural beliefs with the purpose of surprising viewers to make them think in those striking subversive messages that criticize society with irony and invite social struggle, political criticism or, simply, reflection.
Would you consider street art as vandalism?
For some people, a form of expression can be art, for others this expression is damage to the property of others, then it could be seen as vandalism. It depends on who looks at it and what ideology they have, but in my opinion it’s not vandalism since now each person is free to express what they think.
In your own work, are you always trying to represent the same message or does every artistic piece have different context?
I’ve never had to express the same message, I have had the opportunity to make a different art in each job that I had. Every day is a new inspiration for me, I like to play a lot with the colors of the place where I am going to paint, objects that I find or even the message that the person wants to convey at that moment.
What do you think about street art as a way of communicating ideas?
If you asked me as someone who wasn’t an artist, I think it is a very good idea because I consider myself a person who doesn’t like to read a lot but every time I see a reflection, message, drawing, story captured on a wall with art it is as if it will completely catch my attention and immediately I want to investigate further and know what the artist is trying to communicate to me.
Some of Valentina's Work, Property of Valentina Avila, Nativa da Praia and Baltra Swimwear.
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