has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
“TALLAS” is an installation of a ficticious store where fifty body suits made of women of different ages, races and sizes are on display. It is common to see advertising where women are objectify, they are presented as objects to acquire or as accessories that give status.
This exhibition comes from the need to give a sincere representation which confronts the massive amount of advertising that exposes us to millons of images of the same woman, the “perfect one”. “TALLAS” surges from unretouched photographs that allow us to see wrinkles, scars, hair, beautiful “imperfections” of the bodies that grow, love, suffer, live.
¨TALLAS" invites us to put on someone else´s skin, to question what stops us from showing ourselves as we really are, and shows the irony of that everthing, specially our own nature, becomes part of what is for sale in the market.
“TALLAS” incites a reflexion about how society treats the female body. Examines the result of the objectification. Allows the visibility of marks that are still taboo in the standar view of beauty. Through this work I question the value of life in relation to arbitrary attributes such as our place of origin and our appearances.
“TALLAS” is an installation of a ficticious store where fifty body suits made of women of different ages, races and sizes are on display. It is common to see advertising where women are objectify, they are presented as objects to acquire or as accessories that give status.
This exhibition comes from the need to give a sincere representation which confronts the massive amount of advertising that exposes us to millons of images of the same woman, the “perfect one”. “TALLAS” surges from unretouched photographs that allow us to see wrinkles, scars, hair, beautiful “imperfections” of the bodies that grow, love, suffer, live.
¨TALLAS" invites us to put on someone else´s skin, to question what stops us from showing ourselves as we really are, and shows the irony of that everthing, specially our own nature, becomes part of what is for sale in the market.
“TALLAS” incites a reflexion about how society treats the female body. Examines the result of the objectification. Allows the visibility of marks that are still taboo in the standar view of beauty. Through this work I question the value of life in relation to arbitrary attributes such as our place of origin and our appearances.
The works are made by creating wood forms and painting images on paper, then mounting the images and paper patterns onto the surface. The shapes form angles and curves that sometimes generate the meaning of the piece. On some works, the image is already in mind, and the wood form is made for its purpose.
Trophies examines man’s fixation with defeating and/or overpowering nature in order to achieve a sense of strength. Using objects that are associated with masculinity, my aim is to produce an alternative to a common and naturally destructive form of trophy-ism; the taxidermy head. By working with elements that still bare the significance of what it means to “be a man”, I can shift the elemental focus from destruction, towards empowerment gained through construction, strategy, and creation.
