Wounds

In this project, I used some industrial materials such as cables, wires, umbrellas, mattresses, metal and chairs and I reconfigured them to express a loss. I sewed some parts of these materials to transform them into something else; hence, the new form is not the object itself. Something has been missing and now the whole is changing because some fragments have been broken; however, nobody understands the way in which this new situation has been developing.

Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse´s works have influenced this installation. I have been strongly inspired by the materials they used, the way they displayed them and the connections with their biographical experiences. The current piece wants to invite the viewers to feel and connect the installation with their own sensations and experiences.

The piece consists of a series of fragments of something that no one knows exactly what it is, but that evokes abstract/strange sensations. We are not sure what we are looking at; however, there is an ambiguous feeling of calm and pain at the same time… Possibly, the presence of the blue colour soothes the environment, while the red lines, looking like bloodstreams, emphasise the opposite reaction/feeling. The veins go through the blue colour and in this way the artwork presents itself as an inorganic physicality that sometimes seems more organic. Indeed, some fragments are in tension and movement, which could indicate transition. Here, sculpture-shaped elements seem to be falling to the ground as deadweight, maybe because they are still alive.