RECONSTRUCCIONES I
Mixed medias
Bronces de Bellas Artes Group Show
Las Setas Antiquarium, Sevilla (ES)
2020
2020
Installation view.
In Reconstrucciones I I recollected all the objects I had of an old lover – among these, a bronze mold I made of him while smoking – and arranged a small sanctuary, a reliquary of useless clutter.
Through this action, which might remind of a compulsive hoarder, I wanted to rebuild up an identity and point out that our existence survives in the remains we forsake along the way. Here, objects become tra- ces of our passage, footsteps of a past life that constantly intersects the present, they assume new form and possibilities. A so-called fétiches de la mémoire, whose inner strength is to preserve what is gone and free man from the inescapable feeling of upcoming death.
Temporarily, at least.
Through this action, which might remind of a compulsive hoarder, I wanted to rebuild up an identity and point out that our existence survives in the remains we forsake along the way. Here, objects become tra- ces of our passage, footsteps of a past life that constantly intersects the present, they assume new form and possibilities. A so-called fétiches de la mémoire, whose inner strength is to preserve what is gone and free man from the inescapable feeling of upcoming death.
Temporarily, at least.
