Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea presents the first solo exhibition of the Spanish artist Bernardi Roig (Palma, 1965) "Practices to suck the world".
The exhibition includes a series of works (sculptures, videos and drawings), all made in recent years, in which the artist reflects, through a specific selection of images, on representation, misunderstanding, repetition, suppression of memory, excess of light, isolation and anxiety caused by external influences. The exhibition begins with a human figure in actual size put in a corner. The hands are tied behind his back and an amputated leg is replaced by fluorescent neon: the man tries, in a single burst of symbolic possibility, to suck the world from the space around him.
Another smaller figure, with disfigured face and sharp nose, covers his ears not to hear the roar of a hellish world of sound. The lack of a background makes it unstable to our gaze: everything falls into the...abyss of our inner soul.
The exhibition is completed by a series of drawings dominated by the presence of a solitary figure represented at the limit of suffering and by a video projection: here the artist, in silence, literally sews his mouth in front of a bourgeois audience anesthetized and unable to blink.
Since the late 90s, Bernardi Roig has began to explore those experiences which are distressing and obsessive for the human soul. His works sometimes has the same quality of a mirror which traps and deforms our image.
In these years, all the work of Bernardi Roig has developed under the shadow of two questions fundamental to him: how to deal with the iconographic repertoire inherited and how to create, at the same time, a persistent image that throws us from a psychic cliff in a world characterized by repetitive and redundant representations. His work, heavily influenced by literature and cinema, has followed a route marked by the desire of representing the space from both narrative and theatrical perspective.
This exhibition aims to formulate a reflection on the nature of collective perceptions in a world deeply marked by the domination of the media and the virtual world that, with an excess of images, exceed the individual tolerance limit: the incessant flow of multimedia signals has established the supremacy of language on the authenticity of experience.
Entrada actualizada el el 06 may de 2015
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