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Ausencia habitada / Inhabited absence

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Leo de la O

Inhabited absence

Mixed, fiber paper and canvas

140 x 140 cm

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From photographs manipulated digitally and pictorially, the work Absence inhabited is materialized. It is an aesthetic discourse in which I use snapshots as a documentary element to cast a tense reflection on memory and individual memories. Experience that I article as a kind of essay about the isolation in which we have lived in these months. It is about merging images into the same idea, longed for landscapes that in turn lead to rethinking a cleaner and purer world. All these modes of fusion and relationship, the interest in blurring the limits of life, in making the distant become close and the everyday enlarged, in making it easier for everyone to be an actor in this story, start from the globalized and multicultural social substrate that conditions the world of today and that is expressed with all property as a resource of insertion in the contemporary visual tradition.

Exhibitions with this piece

ArteMorfosis - Cuban Art Platform

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.

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