Attempts at moulding thought

This practice of capturing the spirit uses photography or moulding to prove to the world, through a tangible material, the physical presence of spirits, and to demonstrate the existence of ectoplasm.

Damien Valero puts these esoteric considerations aside. He evokes spirits as the remains of bodies: visible in the body in the form of a chrysalis, a human metamorphosis; or visible in abstract matter, a vague analogy of the soft matter of the brain, empirical and random imprint of thought which is never the same.

You don’t dip hot wax into the jar of cold water the same way twice: Heraclitean warning of the gesture which cannot be repeated identically. Through the transparency of the jars, the artist reveals an organic matter created by precipitates of uncertainty. LD