Monument to the self-rebuild VIII (Raped) Print

MONUMENTS FOR THE SELF-REBUILT Deconstruction is a process that is not only part of social or economic systems. Thinking about how we rebuild ourselves is part of the constant process of changing, considering our- selves as a continuity of change. Some people think about this change in religious terms: for Taoists, it is something that moves everything, it is the Ying-Yang, a system of continuous movement created by the opposition of contraries, which is not far from Hegel’s dialectic. Thinking about deconstruction as a constant movement —social and personal— we can think about it in different ways. How does jail change a person who has been imprisoned for the wrong reason? How can we talk to a woman who has been raped? What about a kid who was abused by a priest? Or those elders that have been abandoned by the government that they founded? Or that teenager who has been bullied for ages and tried to kill herself? These sculptures are monuments to tell all those people that there are different ways to heal themselves. Sculptures made by rubbish remains from society trying to get up in one piece. But that is not possible, because when something is broken there is no way that it can come back the same, and once again, Taoism and Hegel touch, the river is the same, but at the same time it is not. There are different ways to rebuild yourself, whether by need, by survival, by desire or by force. Kintsugi is the name that Japanese people have given to the art of rebuilding a broken object. To get that object back to use, they glue its remains with gold. A beautiful metaphor: everyone needs something valuable to repair themselves. And for that, they deserve monuments. There is not only one way to rebuild yourself, and there are thousands of paths to do it. For that reason, each monument has to be different. And not all the tracks have the same opportunities or privileges to help us to rise in the best way possible. No matter what, people that have rebuilt themselves deserve a monument. So there you have it. Choose yours.