Stillbirths
Paraffin, oil paint, chocolate, plaster, gold leaf, cotton twine and paper
Module: 42.5 x 30 x 12 cm
Installed: variable dimensions
2018
Module: 42.5 x 30 x 12 cm
Installed: variable dimensions
2018
Look to the self. To assert oneself as an authentic being, aware of oneself.
Forbidden acts in a society that preaches the existence only for the other, that despises the individual in favour of the construction of a collective.
It imposes a predefined external to us. And we, fearing to develop a self-deprecating image, submit and depravate ourselves. We stop “looking inside of ourselves”, to value self-knowledge. Instead we focus on an image, on an apparent self that distorts the concept of self. “The image of self (ideal, imaginary, dictated by the non-imaginary norm of politico-social-moral-psychologically correct) imposes rules of behaviour, internalizes interdicts, self-censorship the individual. It constitutes a severe limit to the free expression, to the thinking and to the free actions” (Gil, 2005:80)
We no longer know who we are, how many we are, what we are. As if we lived “lives of others (…) a brief of non-selves synthetized in a false self” (Pessoa, 1915?). as if the “ autobiographical self” (Damásio, 2001:204) ceased to be build by the own subject and it was solely the product of external causes, as a car being towed.
We materialize the illusory selves the others designate in us, as if the possibilities offered by the moment of birth were already defined by others, and all the others new ones that, peradventure, we fought for, only would result in risks and disasters. But it’s the opposite that happens. It’s the not being authentic, to allow the interior corrode itself by the exterior that leads to fall in disgrace, to be completely submissive to what society imposes that make us unhappy, incomplete, depraved. It is she who personifies the role that is imposed on her and does not seek her own that does not feel herself. The kindness of a woman who others have dictated about her being a housewife, it does’t prove to be more than a disguise of the violence she suffers every day. The success of someone who has been given a company is only a result of their lack of scruples. The purity of those who incited her to the observance of devotion hides the pleasure she can’t control.
We need to born! Not be only a other’s resource, but also a self who realize, build and assert itself.