Santacana

Beatriz Sala Santacana (Havana, 1975) is a self-taught Cuban sculptor, painter and ceramicist whose works includes pottery, ceramic sculptures and enamel. She won the Special Prize of the jury at the 2016 Cuban Contemporary Ceramic Biennial. "Like so many of her colleagues, she began working along domestic, utilitarian lines: plates, crockery, pots and decorations. It didn't last long for her, however, to direct her attention towards more complex forms that drew closer to the anthropological sphere, using her powerful capacity for synthesis. Her preferred subject matter is the human body and she has been reinventing it. She shapes, transforms, glazes, experiments: she leaves behind the purely artisan decorative aspects and launches into artistic creations that take on a mastery of form and color, especially, experiments in the difficult world of glazes undertaken with discipline and rigor." -- Page 39.