Sydia Reyes
Sydia Reyes
Artist
Sydia Reyes’ pieces possess a vital force that predominates and absorbs their space as they interact among matter, form, and light. As sculpture, her work is a three-dimensional art form that has the vitality of an active and dynamic thing that occupies a space or place and projects itself beyond its physical limits. A work of hers does not go unnoticed, both for the emotions, it generates as it relates to man’s everyday world and for its solid structure.
The essence of Sydia’s sculptures cannot be considered apart from their inner meaning—a meaning sustained by the power of iron in structures that dominate their space, by the originality of the concept, and by the subjects she deals with. So it is that she seeks to discover links and mediate between two powerful forces: that which relates to social matters and that of the material she works with. On the social side, she is interested in the city and the relation between the misery in which a human being has to live and the urban object representing this. In this case, the artist establishes a relation between what she wishes to express and what is represented by the actual structure. In her focus on urban subjects, she uses emblematic objects of the street scene like city sewers, shoeshine boxes, shelters, bridges, where life is misery, especially as experienced by street kids.
