Paola Beck

b.1983 Mx City “I’ve been very interested in developing deep positive messages that constructively influence the people who see them” Transforming Mexico City Walls: Interview with Bernardo Sánchez Navarro Iturbe, Cultura Colectiva, 2015 Paola Beck is best known for her
social practice where she aims to change negative social dynamics through public space transformation with community participation. Her large scale mural paintings demonstrate her concern in creating positive messages with significant content.
Her work shows profound emotion with deployment of strong color, overlapping sources and inspirations, with repetitive themes like portraits, nature, flowers and animals. Moving back and forth to the beach and with strong reminicences of her childhood in Germany, Beck encounters her german landscapes nostalgia with urban context and environmental awareness.
Beck is focused in creating social consciousness and cohesion; in Mexico, where social differences are very strong, she has created a collaborative way of thinking, by inviting other artists to participate in the social artistic matter of the city landscape. Her style is highly intense and non-realistic, brushstrokes can be loose and gestural: typically free. Acrylic applications tend to
be generous and highly textured and occasionally dripped. Her body of work tends to be emotional and sometimes mystical. Beck has incorporated her work with popular culture in collaborations with musical bands like Dirty Karma and Lebaron, as well as Life Action Painting (2010,
Zwischenraum Festival, Berlin, Germany; Código, Design Festival, Mexico City) Her practice includes different media such as drawing, collage, illustration, painting, sculpture and diverse materials like wood, paper, acrylic, marble and stone.