"Destruction of Paradise"
In the last ten years of work, I have focused my attention on the dimensions of materials that become symbolic materials as they carry time and memory. Each element becomes a recomposition, a reinvention from pieces of memory. The wire fences, the wear of the woods, the veneers, the dirty fabrics, everything that I use in my work, has already been used and crossed by time.
In relation to the theoretical field of historical materialism, I wonder why we do not guess through the taste of bread, all the effort, the economic and ecological transactions and the human traumas that its production generates. The objective is to delve into a dimension of material in which it can touch the natural and human processes that affected it.
Cement, a material obtained through the calcination of limestone, clay and iron ore, revolutionized construction and deposited on the earth a distinctive layer of civilization in the 20th century. Building on nature builds a solid, paved paradise: the city.
The word paradise is associated with an idealized place "the garden of Eden". Originally, the idea of paradise refers to the perfect creation of God without the intervention of human beings.
The work "Destruction of Paradise" is an exercise between cement (human creation), and the exotic colonial representation of Eden. He aims to represent an imaginary paradise in cement and destroy it to unravel its hidden nature.
The creative process in 4 phases:
1) Preparation of a structure in iron rods and wire that will aim to establish an organic system in which the materials will generate a weft similar to human capillary tissue.
2) The structure will serve to hold the cement that will be dumped into a 120 x 70 cm formwork box. The cement will be dumped on a glass surface, which will allow, once dry, to generate a polished surface without pores.
3) Then an image of an engraving of the Tequendama waterfall in Colombia will be transferred onto the smooth surface of the polished cement.
4) A video will be made with the record of the partial destruction of the formwork by a hammer. The objective is that the destruction allows a glimpse of part of the structure.