Expression through the repetition of the
self-portrait
Developed during a creation residency in Kingston School of arts,
Kignston Upon Thames, UK 2018
Repetition of gestures, colors and shades. Monotype with a mirror, xilography over a fast draw, screen printing made with black paint over an acetate carborundum, embossed expressions, modeling with eyes closed, painting with the fingers and raw hearth. These three projects went around the self-expression. They aim was to find answers to some difficult questions of self-existence. With the used of different techniques in experimental ways it was possible to get to know the self in a better and deeper way.
How many layers do we have to break until we find the way out of the self?
A reflection on the imposed layers of protection with which we approach the world. Questioning the need for these layers in order to be able to function in supposedly non-hostile environments and a comparison or metaphor with the use of cumulative layers in graphic techniques.
Technical Research: Xilography, screen-printing, carborundum and monotype. Manual graphic techniques that plays with the role of the artist as a blind creator. The beauty of still the unknown.
Artistic experimentation: With a mirror as first companion, it has been sought the repetition of the own face, increasingly striving for neutrality and separation from the entity that appears in the reflection. Through color and the techniques employed, results were achieved that were not being sought.
The size and the prints: There were achieve 16 multitechniques and multi-layers prints, made over different types of fabrics. Of 60 x 90 cm.
