UPROOTEDNESS
Alone 2
Bronze
50 x 13 x 15 cm. (Height x width x length)
Noise and uprootedness 4
Chinaise ink on paperboard
25 x 45 cm. (Height x width)
Noise and uprootedness 3
Chinaise ink on paperboard
25 x 50 cm. (Height x width)
Noise and uprootedness 2
Chinaise ink on paperboard
25 x 45 cm. (Height x width)
Uprootedness on black 3
Mixte tecnic on aluminuim
75 x 75 cm. (Height x width)
Uprootedness on black 2
Mixte tecnic on aluminuim
75 x 75 cm. (Height x width)
Uprootedness on black 1
Mixte tecnic on aluminuim
75 x 75 cm. (Height x width)
In waiting 2
Chromatized resin
37 x 4 x 20 cm. (Height x width x length)
Profile uprootedness
Chromatized resin
35 x 10 x 7 cm. (Height x width x length)
Golden uprootedness
Resin / fiberglass / chromatized wood
210 x 185 x 230 cm. (Height x width x length)
Silver uprootedness
Aluminium
45 x 40,5 x 37 cm. (Height x width x length)
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Leonardo Da Vinci said that “a painting should show mental events through the physical gestures of the figures in it.”
I took this statement as the starting point for this project-process I have called “Uprootedness”.
I wanted to make the most of the opportunity to explore solitude, perhaps as an observer or with an autobiographical bias, yet without seeking answers, just merely to “point out” a path.
In these “mental events” in which the words can change but not the motives, I give myself over completely, step by step, to the process in which I have worked on this suspended story for many years.
It is a story full of tragic, forced “uprootedness” that takes place in our society at the same time as other self-inflicted forms of uprootedness which, in any case, produce the same sense of disorientation of the individual and his vulnerability.
With “Uprootedness” I do not wish to shout, but rather to whisper, without making any gratuitous use of the tragedy in everyday realities that can go unnoticed due to saturation. I do not use solitude as a romantic component of a “noisy” or theatrical “I”.
I approach this project with invisible strategies, with new technologies and classical disciplines to speak of crowded solitude, endeavouring to give myself perspective, and the distance is such that at times I am part of the observed, like yet another element, an echo of what is happening around us.
Copyright 2020 Damià Díaz