Saturday, October 23, 2010

"Spaces for the memory". Two Dimensional Work. 2005-2011


“Between sky and ground”
Oil painting on linen
Dimensions: 70 cm x 80 cm
Year: 2009
Sold



 
“Carrying home”
Oil painting on canvas and piece of wooden chair. (framed)
Dimensions: 148 cm X 125 cm
Year: 2009-2010
AU$3000


“ Couch container of memory”
Oil painting on dark fabric and assemblage with fabric and wood
Dimensions: 200 cm x 180 cm
Year: 2009
AU$2200


“Vanishing House”
Oil painting on canvas, discarded space   and assemblage with a wooden piece
Dimensions:   180 cm  x 180 cm
Year:  2008-2009
AU$2200


“Hybrid color”
Oil painting on canvas and  blue  fabric
Dimensions:  200 cm  x  150  cm
Year:  2009
AU$2200


“ Irene’s  Drawer”
Oil painting on canvas and assemblage with White drawer and fabric.
Dimensions: 200 cm x 200 cm
Year: 2009
AU$2500


Mothers”
Oil painting on canvas
Dimensions: 160 cm x 120 cm
Year:  2010
AU$2200


“Raped House”
Oil painting on canvas and assemblage with fabric and organza  volumetric forms
Dimensions: 180 cm x 180 cm
Year: 2009
AU$2500



“Growing of Memories”
Oil painting on canvas,  and assemblage with pieces of fabric. (framed)
Dimensions: 172 cm x 115 cm
Year: 2010
AU$3000



Woman of remembrances
Oil painting on canvas
Dimensions: 150 cm x 110 cm
Year: 2008
Sold


Woman of remembrances”. Version 1
Oil painting on canvas
Dimensions: 150 cm x 110 cm
Year: 2008
Sold


 "Made in Pieces"
Oil painting on black tent and assemblage with coloured fabrics
200 cm x 85 cm
2009-2010
AU$2000


"Collected Memories"
Oil painting on linen
70 cm x 60 cm
2009
US$800


"Dwelling"
Oil painting on canvas and assemblage of grass
250 cm  x 100 cm
2007
Sold



"Obliterated Space"
Oil painting on canvas, three discarded spaces and assemblage on fabric
200 cm  x  90 cm
2005-2006
Sold

"Unfolded Head"
Oil painting on canvas
90 cm x 110 cm
2005
Sold

"Nothing in the pocket"
Oil painting o canvas and pocket
100 cm  x 50 cm
2005
sold
  

"Amaranta"
Oil painting on canvas and assamblage of fabrics and organza
150 cm x 80 cm
AU$1600
2011

"Overlapped Space"
Oil painting on linen
180 cm x 180 cm
AU$2200
2011


"Traverse"
Oil painting on canvas, assamblage of fabric and paper
40.5 cm  x  40.5 cm
AU$450
2011


"In the Route"
Oil painting on shaped canvas and assamblage of a wooden drawer
250 x 80 cm
AU$3000
2010-2011


 “Spaces for the Memory”  explores images  that recall a lost or forgotten home  and portrays a metapho  This two-dimensional work has obtained the form of a pictorial three-dimensionality as I intentionally present discarded spaces onto the stretches of the painting in order to assemblage  clothes, volumetric forms, or pieces  of objects.  These assemblages although being three-dimensional and touchable may act as pictorial elements.   From this perspective the space of the painting announces itself  as a sort of un-expected dwelling, a site for those  objects beings  that recall humans and inhabit  the  space of our memory.
 In contrast, the images reveal a process of re-construction and  re-invention of separate  parts  into a new space. The elements assembled are de-contextualized from their usual function to represent a counter of memory.
 According to the art critic Charles Mereweather  an object into a piece of art is a monument,  it seeks representation of a place, it depicts  the past and exposes  the memory. 


"Bodies in Transit". Three Dimensional Artwork


“Domesticated Tongue”
 Flowered  fabric,  embroidering and projection of  slide
 Dimensions:  400 cm x 240 cm x 200 cm
 Year:   2006-2009

" Domesticated Tongue" details

" Domesticated Tongue" details





“Los Mojados”
33 shirt sleeves and projection of water 
Dimensions: 340 cm x 20 cm x 40 cm.   
Year: 2007-2009


“Los Mojados”. Detail

“Los Mojados”. Detail



“Fabric-ation of a Body”
Fabric,  video projection  and still projection
Dimensions: 300 cm  x 400 cm  x 14 cm
Year: 2007-2009


“Fabric-ation of a Body”. Detail

“Fabric-ation of a Body”. Detail



Bodies in Transit” may recall experiences of cultural transition and identity issues.  The conceptual content of this body of artwork is supported on mythical elements and cultural and visual theory debates concerning identities in transit.  Similarly, along the consolidation of this artwork I have been inspired on the word diasporas which meaning may allude to images of dispersion, dislocation, and a metaphorical re-construction of home.
During the studio practice I  have found a particular interest on the usage of fabric as a formal  element to  create  bodily  human presences that  depict  a fabricated  skin onto which I can project images of real spaces taken from border zones.  This approach intends to reflect the cultural fabrication that an immigrant experiences while adapting to a different  culture or the so called trans-culturation process.  Hereby the sculptural presences (fabric busts, half fabric body, and  fabric shirt  sleeves) metaphorically evoke dis-location and a possibility of re-territorializing.   
Through the series of artworks “Bodies in Transit” I have encountered a possible space to unfold the fabric that composes my  hybrid Latin American identity and the sentiments that have arose from study as an immigrant in Australia. I refer to the sentiment of being divided, cast out from home and fragmented by a different language.
“Bodies in Transit”  has been inspired on some artistic movements, such as  the  border art workshop / taller de arte fronterizo and the In-site project.  Their artwork straddles between political and mythical ideas, and I consider that these elements have influenced my artwork.  Similarly the work of the artists Helen Escobedo, Ernesto Neto, Hossein Valamanesh and  Magdalena Abakanowicz whose works evoke the construction of a new territory and a human presence  as a matrix for re-invention of  identity.