GRAMMAR OF THE THEFT OF AN IDENTITY
2004
Oil and acrylic on canvas
140x105cm
Oil and acrylic on canvas
140x105cm
Under the scrutiny of a portrait a sitter becomes clockwork.
The hand, the feet, the face, the flesh…
A physical inventory
A fetishistic investigation
A witnessing of human machinery
Apprehension of parts
Overwhelming need to collect muscles, tendons, bones
The appropriation of a figure
The breaking down to pieces of an unveiled identity
The figure is mapped out onto canvas
The identity abducted into the new fabric
The canvas becomes the artist's true reality, the physical one discarded. The stolen identity is no longer a character, rather a whole of features and silhouettes in a veneer of androgynous aesthetics. Sex missing, the identity is endowed with an empty ambiguous box to replace it.
The hand, the feet, the face, the flesh…
A physical inventory
A fetishistic investigation
A witnessing of human machinery
Apprehension of parts
Overwhelming need to collect muscles, tendons, bones
The appropriation of a figure
The breaking down to pieces of an unveiled identity
The figure is mapped out onto canvas
The identity abducted into the new fabric
The canvas becomes the artist's true reality, the physical one discarded. The stolen identity is no longer a character, rather a whole of features and silhouettes in a veneer of androgynous aesthetics. Sex missing, the identity is endowed with an empty ambiguous box to replace it.