10/01/2021
/ ART-17.02_INNER-HEADS /
TITLE: INNER HEADS. CARTOGRPHY OF A SUBJECT.
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
YEAR: 2017 – ongoing
STATUS: study development
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/ INNER HEADS. CARTOGRAPHY OF A SUBJECT. /
Portraits have relied, traditionally, on the artists’ ability to translate what physical gestures say about the inner self of subjects. Between the artist and
the subject the surface portrayed presents itself as a mask or a veil that transpires certain subjectivities that are to be interpreted as the truth about the
subject in question. The face is the mask that is most commonly represented in portraits and, in these cases, the face becomes the surface that builds
the transition between the outer body – the skin – and the inner body – the skull, muscles and bones. It is in this space between the skin and the skull
that the artist has traditionally read the truth about the subject to be portrayed.
The purpose of the Inner Heads project is to question the bidimensionality of the traditional portrait through a series of manipulations that, instead of
focusing on a conclusive truth as a result, focuses more on the process of abstraction of a group of different layers of the subject’s consciousness. In
this manner, the portrait becomes a cartography constructed by the superposition of a series of maps that study the subject as a whole body of
rhizomes – bulbs (nerves) and intensities (muscles), memory and consciousness. There is no back or front; instead, the portrait becomes a group of
paths that proposes an open process for the interpretation of the subject, a truth that evolves with each observation.
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