#Quedate en casa / #Stayhome
Acrylic on canvas
75 x 78 cm
Staying home has been one of the slogans promoted because of the current pandemic due to Covid-19, and one of the greatest challenges for Cubans. This work (open to more configurations, under the same phrase) resizes the experience of the spaces in the house. Each site includes a sacred symbolic potential: healing, productive, rest or reflection, and at the same time activates new senses around the concept of public space. According to chromotherapy, colors also generate diverse psychological effects. The small format allows to move towards the different places of the shared private space, and in dialogue with the body, to experience the present moment. The work, made up of 4 pieces, allows reconfiguring its assembly, alluding to a plan view of an architectural plan. This detail is related to the multiple ways in which we can relocate after the crisis, propose new forms of coexistence and harmonies. For this reason the work refers to the way in which we interpret our reality and its laws, to the way in which we can recreate it, transform it. The extended quarantine, through these small spaces, suggests freedom of creation in resilience; brightness and colors after the crisis.
Exhibitions with this piece
PRISMA
The Colors of Crisis
From the unmitigated evocation to the less obvious metaphor: several Cuban artists have recreated the demanding circumstances we live in - the worldwide crisis that has also become personal history. The current COVID-19 pandemic has impacted dissemination and commercialization of art; likewise, it has affected the artistic process and confirmed that artists do not live in ivory towers: context always matters. ArteMorfosis - Cuban Art Platform, launched a call for artists living on the island to create artworks related to the current pandemic: the challenges, hopes, desires, alternatives, the unexpected consequences of the universal lockdown. The initiative - PRISMA The Colors of Crisis - invites Facebook users to like and promote their favorite artworks. And it is more: facilitating potential buyers and artists to discover each other and enabling acquisition and sales of artworks that will become chroniclers of these challenging times. ArteMorfosis invites you to the online exhibition: The created works constitute inspired testimony, your likes convey relevancy, your shares help increase reach, and your purchases enable the artists to endure and hope for new normality.