Making use of personal experiences and memories it was sought to assimilate the developed works in a context of validation and discovery of identity. The work is centered in the acceptance of the duality between the feeling of connection and repulsion, in a search for the core of the phenomenological-existential questions that have been continuously raised throughout the ages, for they point towards the improper and the inconvenient. The idea of the ugly awakens the raw side of our relationship with the world; the distressing, the scandalous or the unstable, create a personal confrontation with our most oppressed characteristics. ‘Don´t do that because it´s ugly’. What a nerve, to embellish reality...
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The attachment emerges facing two opposites; the melancholy and nostalgia of the being’s continuity and the discontinuity of life. The attachment to the self led to its collection, sympathy and preservation in an attempt to extol. An actual still nature. The simulation of the dead body in the present series became more identifiable, inviting to an approach to the piece. The intrinsic articulation leads to a double reading, the sculpture works as a veil against the real; the corpse, the death and its image. It only allows you to sense the face of reality. As an allegory of the body, it invites us to observe the nudity and fragility in recognition of self identity towards the world. The intimate pain dialogues with the observer, in a relationship between life and death, intimacy and provocation, and ambiguous confrontation between something that is intrinsic but repulsive.
Olga Naamá
(Translation)