THE HIDDEN WORDS OF PANDEMIC CALLIGRAPHY

A BLUEPRINT OF ART IN ISOLATION

As the situation demands, we have planned a series of online activities, such as virtual visits to the studio, conversations through Instagram Live, transmissions of the new artworks teasers, and participations in friends and partners online activities, among others, so we can keep in touch, at least virtually, maintaining an open communication with the cultural and artistic community over the world. This way, we can share and exchange information, and support each other to overcome this crisis together! Over the upcoming weeks I'll continue sharing with you my current artwork and other materials produced during this residence.

Ghosting Series.

Hidden Words 01

What remains invisible

Here, I present you my first Print Edition: 'Ghosting Series. Hidden Words 01', the first of a series of three Limited Edition Fine Art Prints. This new collection, combines conceptual art, printmaking and calligraphy, to go deeper on the concept of “Ghosting”.
The concept of “Ghosting” addresses the notion of 'phantasmagorie' of the late eighteenth century, a series of optical illusions applied in theatres to create horror atmospheres.

If we think of contemporary society, phantasmagoria would appear as that hidden aspect of the illusion of progress. Following the German philosopher Walter Benjamin, it seems that History shows us that there is no way to repair the ruins that we are leaving behind through time, and that concealment, that denial of the remains, is what appear in reality in the form of a ghost.
The Covid-19 pandemic global scenario unveil the promises of a worldwide community; the closing borders, fascists discourses and xenophobia popping out everywhere, let the falseness of this expectations uncovered.