Modern Alchemy

Les Yeux du Monde Gallery

May 7th to June 26, 2022

 
 
 
I have been exploring the Japanese concept MA, it is a concept embedded on all our aspects in our life. Our relationship with our space, internal and external and how we relate with one to another one.  Also, the interpretation of time and space, pauses and silences, the emptiness in a space... I created works that get alone, even if they are different, and can be interchange and  set in different compositions, intuitively I pushed for friendly interaction between each other, with space for objective criticism.
 How we communicate from our own spaces...in between spaces, the silence in, space inside the space...no space at all... The way that we deal with... historically in the USA and around the world. And how we deal collectively with grief,  like in cases of injustice, without turning that rage hurting others and  human loss.
Also, we really have in us already set, internally, spaces for whom we grief and for whom we don't, "the un-griefable people...and for whom we have hopes and for whom not… pointing out the un-hopeful people. Do we have lost hope so grief can't let us think of other path of healing and possibilities?   In these works Hope is not lost here, or is a fantasy…it is  still a  concrete possibility.

About the piece Amapola

 I grow up in an extended family. My grandma and mom used to sing old Spanish songs like Amapola, La Violetera etc, very often. The flower, Amapola ( poppy) for me represented certain purity and strength, and her colors are so beautiful…Decades later I found that this flower has been displaced to a level of being associated with the criminal world, drugs, corruption and violence. How something so perfect and innocent got that label… and was set in this category…

Amapola