Saldamente Installation

With my work I try to explore the characteristics that distinguish human beings as such: the physiological and pathological aspect ... similar to the scientific method, the concept of illness is indissolubly linked to a previous state of health. Among those characteristics which are specifically human, there is one which fascinates me more: the idea that lines don’t exist in nature and only humans have the capacity to imagine them. At birth, children have a nebulous and uncertain visual perception; it begins to define itself around weaning, which coincides with the development of the organic elements that permit visual perception (occipital lobe and ocular fundus) and with the child’s autonomy from the mother’s breast. It is interesting to note that weaning is one of the four fundamental separations humans experience throughout their lives and lines are conceptualized as an idea of separation. Children, spontaneously, even before learning to write, draw uncertain signs through which they express themselves. This spontaneous sign also characterizes man’s passage from Neanderthal to Sapiens: the hypothesis that this anthropological passage may have been carried out by women, the likely authors of cave graffiti, while men were out busy hunting, is certainly fascinating. These invented figures do not arise as a result of a material need, but satisfy a greater need for expression, which I would call irrational. The primordial sign is then developed and becomes lines, language, numbers, writing, musical scores, geometric figures, which are all expressions of the uniqueness of human beings: animals don’t invent signs or geometric figures, draw, write poems or music scores. Everything starts from an internal need, from an internal image and the need to express it as one’s identity. With my works I try to express these irrational images, explore how thought is formed from its origin, time/movement internal to man and his affections. Everything, always and however, related to lines as a human presence; continuously looking for an equilibrium, of a stylistic nature too, a harmony that talk about a fundamental sanity of human which I sought for in the colors, forms, lights, shadows….. When I explore a theme I try to represent it in different modalities.