This series of oil paintings sprang from two concerns. To address hyperrealism and to signal the ubiquity of plastic bags in our environment. We must read between these two lines to discover how much they have to say.

Katia has studied and worked on both premises, assuming increasingly greater challenges in her gradual development as an artist. The global concern about the abuse of plastics is brought to the canvas by means of such polished execution that she achieves results of undeniable beauty and ends up highlighting the unconscious “seduction of plastic”—in Katia’s words—of which we are all victims. Based on real bags whose designs may be subliminally attractive, Katia enhances their power in unconventional compositions that cast them as protagonists of consumer society’s comings and goings. Backgrounds, foregrounds, colors, rhythms, knots, contents, interplays of designs, ensemble structures, and details have been executed with care, but also with a sense of humor.

We live surrounded by polymers, whether we like it or not. Katia highlights their charms by observing the underlying ways in which they envelop us.

– Silvia Herrera U.