“There is no art without artists,” claimed Pamen Pereira upon entering the Galician Academy of Fine Arts

“I am a creative spirit with no other occupation”. That’s how it was defined yesterday Pamen Pereira (Ferrol, 1963) after entering as a permanent academician at sculpture department at the Royal Galician Academy of Fine Arts At the ceremony held this Saturday in CGAC. In her first memories of her childhood, a 6B pen appears, with which she recorded everything that surrounded her, as well as drawing lessons with Rosa María Galdo, tini. «My whole life, for as long as I can remember, has been a constant search for the unknown.. […] I still live in permanent wonder”, the artist pointed out in a speech entitled “Too close, too far”, in which she showed her understanding of art.

Pamen Pereira took the opportunity and requested recognition of the artist’s work: “Art does not exist without them». In this sense, he pointed out that a large part of the work they do does not materialize in money. “We assumed the perversion of the cultural industry that needs us, that we support from the base as our foundations, but which does not assume that our commitment and voluntarism must be economically valued,” he said.

This creator, who always thinks that every exhibition is the last, as she admitted, understands art “as another way of research, because it investigates, deduces and discovers. […] Art and science are not opposed, because the aesthetic experience is also a cognitive experience. Furthermore, he stated thatwork is nothing in itself until it is experienced by its recipient, with intimate contact between the two”. For Pamen Pereira, “art is in the gut, not in the head.” He also recalled the influence that time spent in Japan, Antarctica and Africa had on his work.

“You are a poet”

The new academician of fine arts also had words of thanks, among them the gallerist asunta rodriguez, who was in charge of answering his speech. “Pamen, you are a poet, not just an artist. You are a poet because you make the viewer live your words and feel them as his own“, said the responsible person of the Trinta gallery in Compostela, who accompanied her intervention with pictures of Pereira’s work. President of the Galician Academy of Fine Arts, Manuel Quintana Martelo, guess that same message. «There was a time when his works turned from poetic objects into poetic actsin feitos dreams do come true“, he pointed out to put an end to the act in Santiago.