- Agrela, Ángeles
- Anleo, Xoán
- Ataíde, Cristina
- Barco, Eduardo
- Berkowitz, Terry
- Bernardes, Marta
- Cano, Jorge
- Del Junco, Juan
- Gili, Jaime
- Gordillo, Luis
- Herrán, Juan Fernando
- Igualador, Alfredo
- Koch, Eva
- Kraviez, Gabriela
- Lizarazo, Luz Ángela
- Mayo, Santiago
- Meseguer, Rosell
- Peláez, Paloma
- Perinat, Eliana
- Quejido, Manolo
- Van de Mheen, Irene
Apart together
16.09.2010 - 06.11.2010
Apart together
Regarding the pain of others
Apart Together is a trip around the planet in this last 10 years of the new century, emphasizing relationships and insurmountable distances.
The title of Susan Sontag’s essay Regarding the pain of others, inspired these series I now present, on which I have been working on since 2003. Each piece relates to a specific moment and place of these first ten years of new century.
“Migrations” is the first theme worked on from the recent chapters of our collective history. Seventy five million refugees and migrants in the world... ¿Aren’t we all universal strangers?.
In succession images of The Crossing, from one world to another. The western world receives those arriving with hypothermia, fleeing from misery and hoping for richness with symbolic gold gowns.
Parallel to these people’s drama, birds and fish in free and ancestral movement are represented as a poetic and paradoxical counterpoint, many times where the artificial quality of frontiers is in evidence.
Another treated “chapter” is violence. And the place that is given to sport.
Running from a bomb or for a medal.
Implicit poverty beside exuberant trees.
Environmental issues.
The fragile indigenous world. Manifestations of mexican women, nudity as a weapon.
The presence of brands, fashionable logos gather worlds apart.
Food, blankets, basics to the one and only humanity.
As so is celebration... and freedom. New York 2010, a mostly men’s party.
Technically investigation heads to express most effectively a non lineal nor tri-dimensional, but multidimensional reality.
Thus, combinations of opposites appear:
Mixed media, oil and acrylic paint, fluorescents, silver and gold. Colour, monochrome and polychrome. Drawing and sewing. The front and the sides of the canvas.
Playing with randomness.
Paintings that change drastically depending of the angle or the light that hits them, as reality does when seen through different glasses.
Many images in one; many different worlds that find each other in this one and only world.
Eliana Perinat, 2004/10
