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| AURORA ALCAIDE RAMIREZ |
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In the series In construction, through the use of an abstract, ambiguous and
metaphoric language, I intend to reflect on the diversity and heterogeneity of our world.
Globalization, capitalism and the development of communications have increased the
flux of migrations as well as exchanges of cultural and consumer goods. Cities, mainly in
the First World, transform their geographies and expand their territorial boundaries in
order to answer to the new needs of a more pluralistic and materialistic society. The long
ago harmony between man and nature threatens to disappear due to the destructive and
ambitious nature of the former, who does not doubt in stealing land to nature with his
incontrollable constructions or polluting it with massive emissions of CO2 or the
production of non-biodegradable waste sing.
Therefore, the different dualities present in the works In construction VI and VII
(painting/photography, reality/fiction, manual/digital, geometry/gestures, reason/emotion,
etc.) can not be seen as pairs of opposing elements, but as a reflection of the hybrid,
mixed and intercultural character of our modern-day society. But moreover, the organic
and spontaneous aspects of the pictorial gestures that can be found in the first plane of
these works, can be compared with the ones we find in many of the natural fluxes, like
water or sap. In this way, they could be interpreted as an attempt of nature to resist the
attacks of human beings, represented by the photographic images of part of construction
sites in the background.
Whoever wants a less socially committed reading, these pieces can also be interpreted
as a study of the possibilities and potency of abstraction, at a formal as well as
conceptual level. Through the different visual voyages present in the compositions, the
spectator is incited to reflect and meditate about the enigma of the elements that
constitute them. Then, in the observer’s mind, imaginary worlds arises, where everything
is possible, and that allow him to evade himself, even though for a brief period of time, of
the stress and accelerated time of daily life. In these mystic and atemporal spaces, color
acts as a catalyst element, performing the function of detonator of mood and spiritual
uplifting, through its direct action on the spectator’s senses.
metaphoric language, I intend to reflect on the diversity and heterogeneity of our world.
Globalization, capitalism and the development of communications have increased the
flux of migrations as well as exchanges of cultural and consumer goods. Cities, mainly in
the First World, transform their geographies and expand their territorial boundaries in
order to answer to the new needs of a more pluralistic and materialistic society. The long
ago harmony between man and nature threatens to disappear due to the destructive and
ambitious nature of the former, who does not doubt in stealing land to nature with his
incontrollable constructions or polluting it with massive emissions of CO2 or the
production of non-biodegradable waste sing.
Therefore, the different dualities present in the works In construction VI and VII
(painting/photography, reality/fiction, manual/digital, geometry/gestures, reason/emotion,
etc.) can not be seen as pairs of opposing elements, but as a reflection of the hybrid,
mixed and intercultural character of our modern-day society. But moreover, the organic
and spontaneous aspects of the pictorial gestures that can be found in the first plane of
these works, can be compared with the ones we find in many of the natural fluxes, like
water or sap. In this way, they could be interpreted as an attempt of nature to resist the
attacks of human beings, represented by the photographic images of part of construction
sites in the background.
Whoever wants a less socially committed reading, these pieces can also be interpreted
as a study of the possibilities and potency of abstraction, at a formal as well as
conceptual level. Through the different visual voyages present in the compositions, the
spectator is incited to reflect and meditate about the enigma of the elements that
constitute them. Then, in the observer’s mind, imaginary worlds arises, where everything
is possible, and that allow him to evade himself, even though for a brief period of time, of
the stress and accelerated time of daily life. In these mystic and atemporal spaces, color
acts as a catalyst element, performing the function of detonator of mood and spiritual
uplifting, through its direct action on the spectator’s senses.
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