CRISTINA SANTOS
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2025 three A3 sheets

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Bonhams Staff Art Show

4 – 22 August 2025, 12:00 BST

Online, London, New Bond Street

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CRISTINA SANTOS

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2025
Photographic print and text on tracing paper
three A3 sheets

Footnotes

I'm a graphic designer with a restless heart tangled in contradictions. I'm drawn to the loud and bold—vibrant, unapologetic pop visuals—and yet I find quiet refuge in minimalist forms that whisper rather than shout. My creative process is a beautiful mess: an idea for a sculpture morphs into a hesitant abstract painting, which then mutates into a typographic experiment on tracing paper—never quite finished, always evolving. I don't like to call it "my work" because I'm not sure where I fit. I love art deeply—it feeds me, fascinates me, haunts me—but I don't feel like an artist. Graphic design grounds me for it's structure and captivates me for its conceptuality and complexity, though I often doubt I'm capable of such depth. I'm searching, experimenting, layering meaning and materials, often feeling basic in a sea of brilliance. Objects and materials find me; I gather the overlooked and the forgotten, piecing together fragments with a desire to create something new, something that sparks conversation. My pieces aren't just images or objects—they're provocations. They ask questions about truth, perception, and the narratives we build around what we see. In the tension between order and chaos, precision and impulse, nothing is ever quite finished—only paused, waiting to become something else.

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- Modern British & Irish Art
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CRISTINA SANTOS Typographic Collapse2025 three A3 sheets