Bastian Sinsé
Multidisciplinary artist.

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A reflection on creation and authenticity

Biography and experience.

It all started in the bathtub at home when he was born without his waters breaking. He went from the most fertile water of a woman's body to the water of Valencia, known for its chalky taste. He arrived making the surface of the water shine with a greasy, whitish film. At that moment, the doctor, looking at the diameter of the umbilical cord, said: "This child comes with a gift under his arm."
A simple arrival into the world, thanks to a brave mother and a curious father.
He fell asleep immediately, and since then he has been known as a somewhat unpredictable and insatiable dreamer.

An alternative education at "Escuela 2" led him to quickly answer "Artist" to the tedious question adults so often ask children: "What do you want to be when you grow up?", claiming that this way he could do what he wasn't allowed to as a child.
He was officially a bad student, which sparked a great interest in pedagogy. A bad student in the face of deceptively authoritative teachers and a great pedagogue for those who need support, whether physical, psychological, or moral. This is where his sensitivity for accompanying people with functional diversity and psychiatric problems through artistic creation was born.

His artistic training began in 2015 with Juan Azpeitia, a great Basque painter and pedagogue in San Sebastian, and with Cani, a great disciplined and generous pedagogue. Thanks to this experience, he decided to apply to Fine Arts in Bordeaux, without knowing how to speak French.

He studied Fine Arts in Bordeaux, France, until 2019, which allowed him to develop work in **performances** and installations as well as painting and sound. This work concluded with the experimental concept of **"gribouillage"** (scribble) as a chaotic source from which everything is born, a concept he still ardently defends in his work today.

In 2017, during his degree, he suffered a cardiac arrest that caused a short-term memory loss which eventually recovered. The idea was then born that "scribbling is the only way to make art accessible to those who lack memory, that is, humans."

The audiovisual world opened up to him through "La estatua partida" (The Broken Statue), a feature film about a folklorist from Segovia named Agapito Marazuela, which was broadcast on TVE in 2019 and is available on Filmin. In this documentary, Bastian did extensive work as a production, editing, and color grading assistant for the production company La Jetée Films.

After moving, he lived in a communal artist village near Angoulême called "La Brousse" where he decided to apply for a master's degree in art and science in Brussels.

In 2022, he completed his master's degree in "Art Practices, Scientific Complexity" at the École de Recherche Graphique de Bruxelles (ERG), titling his final project "¿Qué me diría a mí mismo si perdiera la memoria?" (What would I tell myself if I lost my memory?), in which he delves into philosophical and artistic questions about learning autonomy and the need for a fertile context for creation.
He finished with an internship at Club Antonin Artaud, a day center for people with psychiatric disorders, where he led the plastic arts workshop with Bartolomé Gomila and Mathias Roche.

Since then, he has been developing exhibitions in Spain and Belgium.