PHENOMENOLOGY OF HUMAN STAGNATION
These works were created using the classic technique of oil on canvas, which was then placed inside a glass case. The intention is to create a microclimate inside the case that is suitable for the growth and proliferation of various types of fungi, which, over time, will take over the image represented, disfiguring it. Finally, corro sion will lead to the complete devastation of the entire canvas. The work aims to represent the contemporary difficulties we face every day. We find ourselves constantly engaged in the search for ourselves or our own identity and dimension, in the continuous cha os of the history and culture that surround us. This difficulty is depi cted and reproduced by a thick, foul-smelling liquid, symbolising the stagnation and immobility of living beings and, at the same time, re presenting the current economic and cultural situation we are expe riencing in recent years. This concept derives in particular from Ja panese culture, in which immobility, understood as a lack of evolution, is considered to all intents and purposes the death of the individual. The display case is a time capsule where, contrary to its normal use, its contents are not preserved from the agents responsible for the degradation of matter. On the contrary, time is accelerated, so that years become minutes, centuries become days, and eras overlap in order to observe the process of decay and decompo sition of an object, a figure, or an idea, thus creating a form of anti-museum.




