fragments et figures laser 1 à 16 damien valero

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There is a double reading in the work of the plastic artist: both to destroy the body, to dissect it and at the same time, to preserve it from decomposition. Two paradoxical desires: on the one hand to mummify the image of the body, its representation, and on the other, instead of leaving it intact, to treat it roughly, to damage it. Disincarnating the image causes a defiguration. Wax covers forms in a velvet sheen, an archaeological memory of human life. However, blood is a promise of life, dried flower and red latex. Death would be then be like the trump cards in Tarot, the blade 13, a phase of mutation into another living being, this time divinised, entering a land from which one never returns (“The undiscover’d country from whose bourn no traveller returns”).

Lionel DAX/Garry WHITE