The traditional Christmas aesthetic is based on just a few colours - red, dark green, silver and gold - but with today’s post I’d like to inspire you an alternative palette for this Christmas, dictated by what could be dubbed as "the Cibelle aesthetic".
I love the way this London-based but São Paulo raised artist mixes colours, clothes and objects in her photographs. I guess a great inspiration in her life must have been the fact that she was enrolled in a music academy that was also part of an art school since she was 6 years old. “I love gadgets, computers, fiddling with Photoshop and making collages and animated gifs, I can be quite fiddly with stuff and the result is all a big scramble,” she recently told me. Cibelle’s aesthetic often results in big collages in which all the colours of the rainbow are casually mixed. Her tracks are the perfect soundtrack to these amazingly kaleidoscopic collages. This versatile artist recently took part in the 28° Bienal de São Paulo with New York’s art collective assume vivid astro focus (AVAF). The pics that accompany this post and my interview with Cibelle on Dazed Digital are all courtesy of Cibelle. Before reading the longer interview on Dazed Digital, here's a brief Q&A with Cibelle.
Question: Do you think MySpace helped getting your music out there?
Cibelle: For sure it did. It makes it easy for people to find artists with their own eyes and ears instead of relying solely on the media. Above all, it’s an excellent site because I feel that when people visit my page, they truly know it is me right there with my images, sounds and thoughts.
Q: Is there a famous producer you’d like to work with one day?
Cibelle: I’d love to give myself to a big producer sometime and see what he or she would do with me. I would just tell them: ‘Have me, I’m yours, now turn me into what you think I am’. Maybe I could work with a few big names from different musical backgrounds or do one album that’s like a compilation of producers that could feature Pharrell, Quincy Jones, Timbaland, Joe from Hot Chip, Brian Eno, Dan Carey and Diplo. That would be a crazy “pick 'n' mix” thing, it would be insane, but I’d love to do it.
Q: What have you been listening to lately?
Cibelle: Chicha Libre’s ”Sonido Amazonico”, Los Saicos’s “Wild Teen Punk from Peru” and the compilation “Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru”.
Q: What’s the biggest influence in your music?
Cibelle: My anthropophagic self.
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