Mutis, 2023
Ceramic,wood
110 x 50 x 15 cm.
The installation is inspired by the story The Silence of the Sirens by writer Franz Kafka, who reinterprets Ulysses’ encounter with the sirens. These, knowing of the hero’s deception, offer him only their silence. Tied to the mast, Ulysses attempts to listen to them, but he cannot know if they truly sang for him. The hero is not fully aware of his heroism. He cannot be, because there exists a “breakdown in communication.” This installation is, therefore, essentially an allegorical strategy of what could mentally happen. A “happening” that, paradoxically, is profoundly narrative, as long as the coordinates of a narrative order based on time, space, or place are destroyed. And when this occurs, the work transforms into a beautiful and terrible “apparition”: it reminds us of something that does not exist. The Siren offers us a silence beautifully laden with images and appearances, but it requires our human condition, our gaze, to give it voice.
Group Show ""Tablao. A Stage of Forms in Contemporary Andalusian Art" curated by Jimena Blazquez and Alicia Ventura,
CAAC Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art
