‘Space Invaders’ are made with objects and waste material that I find in the streets. My method consist into recycle, assemble and disassemble these objects until I make a shape that looks like a UFO, robot or flying object. Then I made cutouts and painted over the objects to give them a more ritualistic character as if it belongs to an ancient culture. The style of cut outs has to do with the aesthetics of ancient cultures such as those on the jungles in Latin America, based on the aesthetics of balance of opposites forces. Like ying-yang. Those are simple horizontal, perpendicular and diagonals drawings. Those details help to give the work a more ritualistic and/or animistic aspect.
But in this particular case my 'Space Invaders' that apparently look like 'Robots' are not mechanical neither electrical nor even don't have a heroic function; those objects don't possess super powers either. My desire is to generate a reaction towards our destruction towards the earth and feel more human again. Also I want them to experience a ritualistic symbolic act as a projection towards a dystopian retro futurism.
It is like a totem trying to reconquering the colonizer with sculptures of its own mass production and desire for constant progress. It is a postcolonial vicious circle in which cultures take on other traditions in order to progress.
Las pinturas son como una extensión de las esculturas. Es decir como posters de películas antiguas ciencia ficción. Pero en realidad son objetos actuales que consumimos y desechamos.
