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Artworks
Abraham Cruzvillegas
An exhausted but happy blind self portrait reading 'A life', a Piet Mondrian biography by Hans Janssen, while listening to 'Feeling Good' by the enormous Nina Simone, having a little strawberry KitKat bar and having the fourth espresso of the morning, try, 2024Blue acrylic paint on newspaper clippings, cardboard, photographs, drawings, postcards, envelopes, tickets, vouchers, letters, drawings, posters, flyers, cards, recipes, napkins and steel pins on wallVariable dimensions (installation of 85 pieces)
Installed Approx.: 160 x 200 cmThe work is part of a series that I call ‘Blind self-portrait’, that I make collecting all kind of papers from everyday life, like napkins, envelopes, images and articles from...The work is part of a series that I call ‘Blind self-portrait’, that I make collecting all kind of papers from
everyday life, like napkins, envelopes, images and articles from newspapers and magazines, receipts,
bus, subway, train, tram and plane tickets, post-its, business cards, drawings, letters, postcards,
vouchers, invoices, recipes, etc. It is a group of pieces of painted paper that describes my everyday
activity. Obviously, I like the idea of transforming information into objects, first. Then using paint as a
solution that appeals to possible ‘meanings’ constructed by viewers. Modular arrangement is important
in terms of ‘representing’ chaotic patterns of growing, as in non-planned urban landscapes and cities.
These grids are to be read as accumulative and random organizations. It is a sort of a super honest
diary in which viewers have to ‘believe’ the accumulation of experience behind.
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