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FineArt Igualada 2023
Work personally printed in the darkroom on silver gelatin
My monster skin
by Laura Aranda Lavado
It is a fictional autobiography; the narration of my own conscious birth. I take as my own the story that Mary Shelley’s The Creature (in Frankenstein) tells of its birth. In its evocation, among all the senses, vision—and non-vision—holds an important place. In this foundational blink, and in the blending of the other senses, is where the boundary between the beautiful and the sinister blurs, where we are all a monster.
“It is difficult for me to have any clear memory of the earliest moments of my existence; everything that happened during that period appears confused and mingled. I was overwhelmed by a strange jumble of sensations: I saw, felt, heard, and smelled all at once, and it was a long time before I learned to distinguish the functions of my different senses. I remember that, gradually, a dazzling light excited my nerves to the point that I had to narrow my eyes. Then a darkness fell upon me that disturbed me, but as soon as I noticed it, the light blinded me again, I suppose now because I opened my eyes once more.” (Shelley, 1818)
Curated by Noelia Pérez (IEFC) Making of Myself the Offering: “All the gestures of my body and my voice to make of myself the offering, the bouquet that the wind leaves on the threshold.” – Alejandra Pizarnik
Making of Myself the Offering brings together the work of three artists exploring the body as a visual and material construct. The body as metaphor, the body as home, the body as prosthesis, the body as stage for imagined characters, the body as dreamer and dreamed, the body as monster, the body as book, the body as sinister, the body as beautiful, the body drawn and erased, the body as mirror and mirage. The body as a mystical offering of self-recognition and veneration.
It is a fictional autobiography; the narration of my own conscious birth. I take as my own the story that Mary Shelley’s The Creature (in Frankenstein) tells of its birth. In its evocation, among all the senses, vision—and non-vision—holds an important place. In this foundational blink, and in the blending of the other senses, is where the boundary between the beautiful and the sinister blurs, where we are all a monster.
“It is difficult for me to have any clear memory of the earliest moments of my existence; everything that happened during that period appears confused and mingled. I was overwhelmed by a strange jumble of sensations: I saw, felt, heard, and smelled all at once, and it was a long time before I learned to distinguish the functions of my different senses. I remember that, gradually, a dazzling light excited my nerves to the point that I had to narrow my eyes. Then a darkness fell upon me that disturbed me, but as soon as I noticed it, the light blinded me again, I suppose now because I opened my eyes once more.” (Shelley, 1818)
Curated by Noelia Pérez (IEFC) Making of Myself the Offering: “All the gestures of my body and my voice to make of myself the offering, the bouquet that the wind leaves on the threshold.” – Alejandra Pizarnik
Making of Myself the Offering brings together the work of three artists exploring the body as a visual and material construct. The body as metaphor, the body as home, the body as prosthesis, the body as stage for imagined characters, the body as dreamer and dreamed, the body as monster, the body as book, the body as sinister, the body as beautiful, the body drawn and erased, the body as mirror and mirage. The body as a mystical offering of self-recognition and veneration.