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Encuentros

2022  /  Sculpture — savanna jasmine branches, eucalyptus, wood carving, clay  /  Variable dimensions

ENCUENTROS

Encuentros — Sculpture on branch, emerging figure Encuentros — Wood carving on natural branch Encuentros — Detail of sculptural intervention Encuentros — Human form in tree branch

ENCUENTROS CON SERES NOTABLES

Encuentros con seres notables — Sculpture carved on branch Encuentros con seres notables — Intervened vegetal body Encuentros con seres notables — Detail of wood carving Encuentros con seres notables — Carved organic form Encuentros con seres notables — Branch with sculptural figure Encuentros con seres notables — Ensemble view

MESA DE TRABAJO

Mesa de trabajo — General view of the workspace Mesa de trabajo — Tools and materials Mesa de trabajo — Carving process Mesa de trabajo — Branches in preparation Mesa de trabajo — Detail of creative process Mesa de trabajo — Pieces in development Mesa de trabajo — Sculptural material Mesa de trabajo — Carving fragments Mesa de trabajo — Work elements Mesa de trabajo — Studio view Mesa de trabajo — Detail of tools Mesa de trabajo — Finished pieces Mesa de trabajo — Process record Mesa de trabajo — Final view of the space

ARBOREA

Arborea — Intervened arboreal sculpture Arborea — Detail of intervention on tree

ENCUENTROS CERCANOS

Encuentros cercanos — Carved figure in close-up Encuentros cercanos — Detail of sculptural form Encuentros cercanos — Close view of carving

LAS CAMINANTES

Las caminantes — Walking figure carved in branch

VIDEO

Encuentros

With these pieces, we bring into consideration the characteristics that bring us closer to vegetal beings, instead of emphasizing what differentiates us from other species and families, as has been done for centuries. The project also suggests a modified image of the human, whose anatomical structure is associated with and dialogues with that of vegetal beings.

Encuentros -1 In this set of sculptural pieces, branches of different botanical species meet and merge into one another, giving rise to a continuum. Thus a branch of encenillo — a native species of the Andean sub-paramo — merges with a branch of eucalyptus, a species from Japan. The series ends with the piece La superneurona, made in France, where the crown of a pine from America is coupled with a European White Chestnut.

Encuentros con Seres Notables. The piece simultaneously presents three images that the public can immediately recognize: the image of Michelangelo's painting The Creation of Adam, the image of human arm and hand bones, and branches of two varieties of trees slightly intervened. It evokes associations with concepts of creation, life, death, as well as pacts, alliances, and transmissions of knowledge. It presents fusions between distant species and even between different kingdoms.

In the video Mesa de trabajo, which is part of this series, a replica of the face of the Venus sculpture is broken and reduced to dust with the help of various domestic implements. This dust is then mixed with water to model a figure that combines human and vegetal anatomy.

Encuentros cercanos is an installation located outside the space of the Museum or Gallery, seen from inside, through a window. We see a tree emitting a morse signal, so that the image of the tree and of the signal enters the room, where the message is decoded on a small screen near the window. The phrase being emitted is “En cada inhalación nos encontramos” (“In every inhalation we meet”).