Cesar De Covarrubias

Artist Statement of Local Fiasco Industries, Ltd.

Our Foundations as a Legal Artistic Entity

I conceive my work as a constant inquiry into what dwells on the edges of the visible. I do not start from a medium, but from a question: how to inscribe fragility into an image, how to trace the tremor of a body that knows it is being looked at. Technique, for me, is only a provisional vehicle,a scaffold that is dismantled once the emotion finds its shape. What matters is the gesture that remains, the trace of a search that never fully resolves.

My true material is tension. That tension that arises when a body offers itself and withdraws at the same time, when a minimal gesture—a hand hesitating, a shoulder turning—contains an entire story of identity, desire, or memory. I am not interested in idealizing. I am interested in showing how being in the world is always an act of balance between showing and hiding, between apparent strength and concealed vulnerability. That is why my figures do not pose: they inhabit an intimacy that runs through them without asking for permission.

A large part of my process is a silent investigation into the gaze and its politics. How do we observe others? How do we observe ourselves when we believe no one ...