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Zoning out
Painting, Political / Social, 164x107x2cm
ZONING OUT
“Zoning out”, the title of this project, is an expression used to describe a crucial mental state: a wandering mind. Researchers say a wandering mind may be important to setting goals, making discoveries and living a balanced life.
In fact, mind wandering is just one of the things that make us human and is the link between the works of this proposal. It belongs to a continuous project based on attitudes, roles and expressions of women during the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, based on documentary images published in newspapers and social networks.
Nevertheless, this is only a starting point. Almost all historical and political references are, somehow, erased in order to concentrate on particular aspects of the whole. This gives rise to a continuous metamorphosis between fact and construction, a grid of fragmented stories based on collective and individual experiences set in a new environment, which has become, completely, a Marc Augé non-place.
These paintings study the subordinate role that hostesses develop in the Congress, carrying out menial tasks or just a merely decorative role. Their faces, their hands and the actions they perform are the images chosen to depict the dissociation that occurs between the actions they perform - what they are compelled to execute in this public environment- and what runs in their minds, wandering or absent minds that do not always accompany the duty they develop. Thus, they organize objects, and their heads and hands greet and perform, but they do not seem to be completely present.
In this regard, according to Kristeva, all creativity is the result of revolt, that takes us back to the most archaic psychic revolutions that initiate both individual and social identity. In this way, art responds to individual and cultural needs and to the relationship with our environment.
And in this environment of “beautiful scenery”, as hostesses were named by the press, some of them seem to rebel by means of a clear action of “zoning out”.
This proposal is made up of ten paintings, oil on canvas on board, which comprise three groups - heads, hands and actions- of four images each. Eight paintings are 33 x 41 cm, and the two remaining, diptychs of 41 x 66 cm each.
“Zoning out”, the title of this project, is an expression used to describe a crucial mental state: a wandering mind. Researchers say a wandering mind may be important to setting goals, making discoveries and living a balanced life.
In fact, mind wandering is just one of the things that make us human and is the link between the works of this proposal. It belongs to a continuous project based on attitudes, roles and expressions of women during the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, based on documentary images published in newspapers and social networks.
Nevertheless, this is only a starting point. Almost all historical and political references are, somehow, erased in order to concentrate on particular aspects of the whole. This gives rise to a continuous metamorphosis between fact and construction, a grid of fragmented stories based on collective and individual experiences set in a new environment, which has become, completely, a Marc Augé non-place.
These paintings study the subordinate role that hostesses develop in the Congress, carrying out menial tasks or just a merely decorative role. Their faces, their hands and the actions they perform are the images chosen to depict the dissociation that occurs between the actions they perform - what they are compelled to execute in this public environment- and what runs in their minds, wandering or absent minds that do not always accompany the duty they develop. Thus, they organize objects, and their heads and hands greet and perform, but they do not seem to be completely present.
In this regard, according to Kristeva, all creativity is the result of revolt, that takes us back to the most archaic psychic revolutions that initiate both individual and social identity. In this way, art responds to individual and cultural needs and to the relationship with our environment.
And in this environment of “beautiful scenery”, as hostesses were named by the press, some of them seem to rebel by means of a clear action of “zoning out”.
This proposal is made up of ten paintings, oil on canvas on board, which comprise three groups - heads, hands and actions- of four images each. Eight paintings are 33 x 41 cm, and the two remaining, diptychs of 41 x 66 cm each.
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