Cristina Lucas
dal 5/5/2008 al 5/6/2008
Segnalato da
5/5/2008
Cristina Lucas
Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid
"In this exhibition we are showing 2 different axles, as if it were a different lecture of the same book. Cain and Eve's daughters are brothers but advance in the story by such different paths that no one knows if they will end up meeting." (C.Lucas)
In this exhibition we are showing two different axles, as if it were a different lecture of the same book.
“Cain and Eve´s daughters” are brothers but advance in the story by such different paths that no one knows if they will end up meeting. I am referring to the dualism of the story, to the official side, which is masculine and war related in the great stories, and the feminine side, of the closest day by day.
Cain finishes with his brother and this first war conflict turns him into the owner of paradise. Without a doubt, this antecedent gives way to all the other wars in which territory is at stake and from the beginning of our days there are different cartographies and Cains that have conquered and drawn their personal paradises at the expense of others.
“Pantone” (a story of Cainism)
It is an animation video of 41 minutes approximately in which all the political maps of the world appear animated, since the year 500 b C. until the year 2007. It registers the political changes that, year by year, have modified the cartographic drawing of our history. Each change in size implies an invasion, each change of colour is a change of identity and this way, second by second, the painting stains are modified and conform our actual world.
“Las Licencias Políticas” (The Political Licenses) (oils 137 x137) that accompany the video are based in the colour stains generated by “Pantone”, each of these stains reveals an identity that is unmistakeable for those who compose the other colour stains, the ones that are unconnected, (changed in position or size), hardly recognized by our unaccustomed vision. It is one of those cartographic compositions that are appreciated in a different way depending on the origin of the spectator.
“Las hijas de Eva” (Eve´s daughters) is a series of photographs that want to explain history, not in a lineal way, but in an emotional one. The daughters of Eve reveal us a will to grow, the aspiration of overcoming oneself or as Nietszche said, of dancing over one´s own shoulders. I have taken as references two fables, the Baron of Münchhausen, who, being trapped in mud, pulled his ponytail so hardly that he managed to pull himself and his horse out of the mudpit; but also that of the princess Rapunzel, trapped in a tower with her long hair, but this time, Rapunzel does not expect the prince to climb on her braids, she saves herself by jumping off the tower.
Other of the works that appear in this show, and also the most recent one, is the video entitled “Habla” (Talk), (7 min, 2008). “Habla”, recreates a performance that will start when Michelangelo finished the sculpture of Moses, hit it on the knee and ordered it to talk. Now, in the XXI Century, it’s a young woman who insists on that the sculpture talks, repeating the gesture of hitting and asking, in search of the Patriarch´s declarations on the three religions as fundamental information for organizing our present times. His frustrating silence as answer conducts the destruction of many expectations, but it is also the gesture of killing the father (that the Jewish Freud reveals in his investigations) what converts us into adults. Therefore, it’s the other daughter of Eve with her will to grow (the server) the one who interrogates the legendary Patriarch.
Cristina Lucas
Opening May 6th
Juana de Aizpuru Gallery
Calle Barquillo, 44 - Madrid
Free admission