‘Life is for living’
Instalation aprox. 300 x 185 x 50cm,
box 34cm x 45 cm x 5,4 cm
39 drawings on paper A3 29,7 x 42,0, x 39 cm
39 drawings made with hand-copied carbon transfer paper on A3 paper, 39 labels with information about the time used, noted with a typewriter, box covered with bookbinding fabric, stool, about 50 cm high
‘Life is for living’ "La vida es para vivirla"
Continued drawing of an affirmation using carbon paper on paper. The drawing is made visible here by means of transfer, as a trace of the gesture of drawing. While inside the drawing support object is archived the time spent drawing each proposition/evidence. A contemplation of what is alive within life, even drawing as a gesture of living itself, 1414 minutes is the time spent carrying this transmission through drawing.
The fusion between working, living, and being is inextricable by nature. It implies for me basically to things – art as idea and art as action – I try to bring both into a conceptual context in a permanent transformation of matter. The material condition and the visual instance are as crucial as the idea it conveys for the possibility of its (personal and impersonal) consequences.
It leads to the agency of the work itself, where conceptual ideas may lead to personal moves and vice versa. The idea is that information (lat. informare -in the sense of giving form to the mind) can be very powerful — apart from its fragile material condition and anti-monumental appearance.
del dibujo.
