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Sergio Clavijo makes use of our space by showing us what we don’t always see.  His work is based on the poetics of invisible subjects like thoughts, wishes, secrets, and dreams.  Emaho caught up with this Montréal-based artist to talk about his latest projects.

  Where did you start as an artist?

My art practice started over 12 years ago as an architect at the studio of Doris Salcedo.  There, I built art pieces of all sorts ranging from huge public art, to knitting fibers into walls with a surgical thread.  I see art as a part of life.  Whatever field one ends up in as a professional, art may well have something to do with it.  Years ago, I learnt that an artist points at things as a hint of something.  That’s how I begin.  I try to follow the path of those hints.

  Sleepers, 2013