The deadline is today and it’s so exciting to see the work almost done and all the show coming together. It is looking great, it has a very fun and playful feeling with loads of colour. I even think that we should try to choose a gallery in the next few months and put together a proposal and see what happens.
My work is looking as colourful as ever, there are a lot of objects made with cardboard and covered in fabric, haberdashery etc… At the end the sculptures are standing on top of a super king mattress covered with a white sheet. The mattress stands on top of a wooden platform my helper made for me and I have painted with a dark rasperry colour. Sometimes I think that the whole piece looks like a cake with the ribbon at the bottom, the white icing and all the icing figures at the top.
I have decided to leave “Cheeky monke a la Espagnole“ too facing the new work, they both complent each other and since I’m not longer exhibiting drawings or video I think I should exhibit the more the better. This sculpture also resemblences like a viewer looking at the work and it will add a bit more of humour to the whole thing when someone will be standing next to it. Because I’m attempting to talk about domestic violence too in this work, having “Cheeky monkey a la Espagnole” staring at the work, at the stage, is like wanting to mirror society towards domestic violence. Everybody knows that is there but very little gets done. Or I read it too as an approbation of abussive behaviour, not acknowledging that this behaviour is unacceptable.
I want to represent a fight in bed, what might happens in bed between a couple, the love but also the hate. Sleeping with your enemy kind of thing, caotic and passional.
The monster is trapped in a box and it might come out or maybe it has come out already, the hammer has been used, the woman’s legs are up in the air, she has been trown up across the bed and she has landed upside down. There are red tears or blood drops coming from a colourful cascade of different patterns, with a furry white background that resemblences to a mountain, like if once more time the tension has exploded and reached the cimmyt with a painful end, physiologically and psychologically.
This piece is another attempt to work with humour and trauma, in this case domestic violence.
