Mental Latitude, 2022
These works are composed of small canvases displaying women figures stripped from their context, their bodies inserted in a two-plane pictorial space divided by a triangle form. The triangle shape cuts the space; one plane is the background for the body, and the other a triangle that seems to pin them down, creating tension and density. As autonomous bodies in a new territory, as objects in an estranged space, they are affected by its compositional gravitational pull. But more importantly, these bodies now have to relate to themselves. There is an intensification of mental and emotional states, and it's not clear what they are feeling, doing and where they are located. My idea was to disrupt the notion of space and time and convey different consciousness states: dreaming, hallucinating, ascending to another realm, or having an out-of-body experience. Whether they are simply navigating between body and mind states, they can also play a symbolic, social, and psychological function, questioning how we relate to the internal and external spaces in our lives.
Oil on canvas | Variable dimensions 28 x 31cm - 42x30cm