Under the structured, demanding and professional view of the Costarican textile artist Paulina Ortiz, new awesome concepts and ideas are presented while at the same time we assume them as ours due to their pertinence to our culture and history. The art of textile as well as the Neo-tapestries, as Paulina call them, are thus, in our time, the true expression of a contemporary and globalize vision.

José Mario Maza - 2005
Acting Director Museum of Modern Art "Carlos Merida", Guatemala

 

Creativity is life transmitting. Apart from this inequivocal vital power, Paulina’s creations possess an internal force that transforms her work in “quasi chamanistic” rites, leading us into our most profound, archetypical and ancestral ego.

Pilar Tobón, August 26, 2004
President "Women in Textile Art" World Organization, Miami

 

Because Paulina has been able to make a round trip into the primordial interior, within the ontologic game art becomes when it reproduces socioeconomic tendencies, we can now make contact with her ars povera, plenty of outstanding authentic multiple significations, a microcosmos that promotes the initiating rite to blend in with nature now and through the centuries, simultaneously.

Marcela Valdeavellano, 2004
International Consultant in Art and Cultural marketing, Guatemala

 

The important thing of this significant artistic act of Paulina Ortiz is that, by remaking and giving impulse to the rebirth of all the symbols related to the weave of life, the ritual becomes source of inspiration. In this way, the actualization and the re elaboration of that past, from the prospective of today, is easily inserted in to the vanguard techniques and inside the new alternatives of the visual arts.

Amalia Chaverri -2001
Acting Viceminister of Culture- Costa Rica

 

In this exposition it is possible to confirm that her pieces convey a subtle message that makes the spectator aware of his/her environment and which is expressed by means of a symbolic language born from creativity, the investigation of renewed traditional techniques that are conjugated into her personal style of minimalist sensitivity and indisputable feminine seal.

Elizabeth Barquero 2001
Acting Director of the Costarican Art Museum

 

Being in contact with the work of Paulina Ortiz is an initiation ritual, it is the entrance
way to the rupture of norms and conventionalities in artist expression, not only textual but also contextually.

Miranda Bruce-Mitford -201
Professor in the School of African and Eastern Studies at the
University of London. She is also curator of the British Museum