Gynaikalia's Portal

Medium: clay ceramics, pewter, bees wax, wood, cotton cloth, earth, strings.

Description

This project is a mixed-media sculpture installation. It is an interpretation of feminine symbols represented by simple forms. This sculptures are rooted in a space that has to deal with ceremonies and rituals as anthropological representations of existential human conditions, where Life and Death are natural oppositions and become the most relevant characters.

This is an Installation project about women’s signs and symbologies, related themselfs by a scenographic space.

My subject is a research and an interpretation of feminine principles, based on a thesis of Friedrich Hegel Antigone’s writings and Claude Levi-Strauss anthropological considerations.

I am passionate about questions that problematized the origins of some circumstance in human nature, in this case the troubled and powerful women’s world.

This project is composed by different sculptures made of multiple materialities, which I use with a pure allegorical and symbolic meaning: clay ceramics, wood, raw cotton, hide and beeswax.

I want to represent, as it were a theatrical stage, different feminine symbologies that are related with primordial anthropological oppositions which occurs in a mythological context; the raw and the cooked, fertility and decay, sacred and profane.

I am interested in the simplicity of certain forms because they call to the most recondite place in our psyche. The sculptures in this work are based in variations of a triangular form, engaging, in this way, a strong multicultural symbology in which the triangle is related with the mother earth, a feminine principle that comes from the past, an ancient force.

Thus ceremonies and rituals have an essential role in Gynaikalia’s Portal, representations in which feminine principles of life and death are explored and the uncanny is being revealed; conforming a devotic altar where the mysterious essence of woman gain strength in it. This installation grows from the desire to represent an invocation of the past, an offer to the contrary principles of life and death, decay and glory.

It is a representation in which the unconscious and surreal dwell.