Mickey, Three Little Pigs, Jimmy The Criquet & Dwarf, Polished and black patina bronzes and moulds, 60x 90x 50 cm average, 2004
Mickey & The Mirror, Lenticular image, 127 x92cm / Photographies, 42 x29cm, Fantasia Group of seven small canvases, 21x18 cm each
Sleeping Beauty in Compostela, Animation still and 3D Printed model in resin, 22x37x25cm, 2004
Sleeping Beauty in Compostela, Animation still and 3D Printed model in resin, 22x37x25cm, 2004
Erotogenicity (2002-2004)
This body of work strives to work as a metalanguage via putting together on an imaginary level different layers of discourse in order to make possible or impossible oneiric connections with the audience. The intention is to explore the dimension of myth in contemporary culture, to see culture as a larger agent or entity which like us is hopefully still forming and developing from a Narcissistic identity into a more loving and less self- centred agent.
In Freudian terms, Erotogenicity is the faculty of any part of the body to become a source for sexual stimulus in the early stages of personality formation. This is a phase of childhood when infants relate to the world and become familiar with their still alien body which is then felt as dismembered and fragmented. Sexual stimulus is a central part of this psycho-physical discovery in the solipsistic relationship of the infant and the body of the mother.
The inspiration for this project also came from reading Cher Krause Knight in ‘Mickey, Minnie and Mecca, Destination Disney World, Pilgrimage in the Twentieth Century’ (1999). In this text Krause points at the difficulty of embracing an spiritual dimension in capitalist/materialist societies where the only place left for spiritual transformative experiences such as pilgrimage is in holiday family packages with the main destination being Disney World.
This body of work was shown on my birthplace A Coruña/ Santiago de Compostela, pilgrimage location for Catholics all over the world where the body of St James is supposed to be resting. However there is historical evidence that this pilgrimage was already taking place since the time of the Celts when they performed it as a veneration to their mother goddess and protector of the sea Isis, the sea was the place where her beloved Osiris was reborn and like St. James also brought to the sore in a boat.
Transformation of myth, the obsession with the figure of the Saint and Art practice as a personal pilgrimage towards one’s own origins is explored and proposed in this body of work which consisted in a combination of bronze sculptures, lenticular images, an animation, a 3D printed sculpture, and a film.
In Freudian terms, Erotogenicity is the faculty of any part of the body to become a source for sexual stimulus in the early stages of personality formation. This is a phase of childhood when infants relate to the world and become familiar with their still alien body which is then felt as dismembered and fragmented. Sexual stimulus is a central part of this psycho-physical discovery in the solipsistic relationship of the infant and the body of the mother.
The inspiration for this project also came from reading Cher Krause Knight in ‘Mickey, Minnie and Mecca, Destination Disney World, Pilgrimage in the Twentieth Century’ (1999). In this text Krause points at the difficulty of embracing an spiritual dimension in capitalist/materialist societies where the only place left for spiritual transformative experiences such as pilgrimage is in holiday family packages with the main destination being Disney World.
This body of work was shown on my birthplace A Coruña/ Santiago de Compostela, pilgrimage location for Catholics all over the world where the body of St James is supposed to be resting. However there is historical evidence that this pilgrimage was already taking place since the time of the Celts when they performed it as a veneration to their mother goddess and protector of the sea Isis, the sea was the place where her beloved Osiris was reborn and like St. James also brought to the sore in a boat.
Transformation of myth, the obsession with the figure of the Saint and Art practice as a personal pilgrimage towards one’s own origins is explored and proposed in this body of work which consisted in a combination of bronze sculptures, lenticular images, an animation, a 3D printed sculpture, and a film.
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