INMORTALIZACIÓN EFÍMERA
Instalación. 15 Daguerrotipos intervenidos y 15 cajas de luz. Medidas 64 x 120 cm aprox.
2011
I appropriate objects deeply rooted to a historical memory that is threatened to disappear. In this case daguerreotypes in which appear a cliché and a standardization of the children’s portraits are directly modified using cloth collages, cuttings and several objects. I modify something of its composition, sometimes bordering on the surrealism, other times, doing exclusively a purely esthetic treatment.
This way, images whose protagonist is children’s figure go up in value. These lives cloistered in a frame and a dramatic stage to take the portrait, are converted to create new tensions in which appear textures, colors, objects and montages. Although they have a serial and outdated character they keep their singularity being completed with a contemporary reality.
The system of the 9 light boxes that light in a flashing way and through stages, being emphasized just a few seconds. Inmortalización efímera embodies that benjaminian conception of the artist as a historian, who proposes alternative examples of writing and communication of the past time, believing in the strength and tangible power of the images, calling historical narration into question. In short, the artist acts recovering that was consigned to oblivion and exalt it. He brings something past to the present, giving it validity and location in the present moment.