Daniel Agra
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW visual stimuli often manipulated by other interests , so it is essential to have a conscience of the truth , the individual should have the need to ask the question of whether It is true the reality they tell you .
“ We form part of a collective brain washing that leads us to be a civilization of machines , cultural beings influenced by our surroundings mimetic as well as memetic immersed in a sea of images and information somewhere between chaos and the unfathomable , the idea that we are being programmed en masse by our own society through the idea that in this way an intangible dream becomes widespread , the idea hence that this is in fact what our world is like and will be and that we have ourselves made it so , whether it is a reality or not beyond these thoughts . " Ensueños de Teseracto " is a metaphor of the box ( i . e . the TV box ) and the fourth dimensional axis that symbolizes the conscience of the machine itself , a rebellion against the content imposed on it by the system , seen through a battlle of images , a subversion caused by being used for the control of the masses .”
In the specific case of " El Jardín de Entelequia ", the years of nature photography taught me many things : the process of blasting the pollen of a flower when you touch it , seeds of a dandelion when they flow through the air in search of fertilizing other spaces , seeking to follow its life cycle of reproduction and existence , to that previous moment of explosion , there is no conformity , there ’ s a struggle for its continuity and to conquer other spaces . "
We have appreciated the way it also leaves space for the spectators to become emotionally involved in what you are attempting to communicate . Can you talk about what you ’ re trying to communicate with the elements that you have incorporated in El jardín de Entelequia ?
Climate change , action and inaction of human beings are pushing the limit to our planet , disappearance of animal and plant species , ecosystems , etc . In the words of Michel Comte , " If you had dived - as I did - on coral reefs 20 years ago , and on those same coral reefs now , I would start thinking about building a rocket to leave the planet right now ."
" El Jardín de Entelequia " is a metaphor about life , the human being and the space it occupies , that we have to be able to re-emerge from our own paralysis and the environment in search of a new self , which in the end becomes A new us , from the point of view of the own being as of the space it occupies .
“ Both what is synthetic and artificial is omnipresent in our daily lives and has devastating effects among us and the ecosystem , its consequences last thousands of years before they disappear … why not imagine nature ’ s rebellion … why not imagine the transmutation of matter . The garden of Entelechy is the prelude of the metamorphosis that contradicts the laws of nature . What once was inert begins a