BODY LANDSCAPES © 2005
The human body becomes topography, map and, at the same time, landscape. A landscape that becomes abstract and at the same time corporeal.
Topografía Femenina © 2005 :: Stainless steel, felt :: 210 x 100 x 35 cm
Topografía Masculina © 2005:: Stainless steel, felt :: 210 x 100 x 35 cm
A three-dimensional canvas where the contour lines, made in a warm material such as felt, describe the mould, the negative, in short, the emptiness of a male and a female body. A bed that becomes abstract when we apply a micro gaze on its negative. A corporeal cartography made of concavities and convexities, of valleys and mountains; in short, an anthropomorphised landscape whose particular geography is embedded in a metallic volume, openworked with indentations that remind us of the lines of the hand, of rivers of a territory, once again a journey from the interior of the body to the exterior of the landscape.
Mapa Corporal Femenino © 2005 :: Stainless steel, rivets, steel wire, steel cable, wax, lead :: 200 x 115 x 20 cm
Mapa Corporal Masculino © 2005 :: Stainless steel, rivets, steel wire, steel cable, wax, lead :: 200 x 115 x 20 cm
The series Body Maps uses a flatter register, where the metallic silhouette of a female body and a male body act as energy centres from which a steel cable sprouts, connecting the two figures. The cables emerge and are positioned at strategic points on the human body, where energy zones are concentrated. A map of contour lines is activated from the body silhouette, which runs along the body, blurring its outline towards the exterior.
Double Identity 01-06 © 2005 :: Felt, thread, rivets, steel wire :: 80 x 30 x 20 cm
Finally, Double identity series uses embroidery as a linear code that draws contemporary identities in a double visualisation, generating an ambiguous reading, resulting from superimposing the image with a double movement: front and profile, front and back, static and dynamic, etc... The drawing reinforces its degree of abstraction by folding over the rectangular prism that acts as a support. A network of steel cables spatially stitches the structure, reinforcing the energy points of the human body. The yellow stain reminds us of bodily fluids that spill over the body itself, but also over the felt fabric, like stains, maps, abstract contours.
EXHIBITED AT::
Galería Raquel Ponce. “Miquel Navarro. José Manuel Ballester. Esther Pizarro. Arquitecturas”, Madrid. 15/09/2005 al 30/10/2005
Art / Salamanca / 05. “Arte y Ciudad”. Galería Raquel Ponce. Salamanca. 29/10/2005 al 1/11/2005
Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Canarias COAC. Demarcación Las Palmas. “Inter-relaciones”. Las Palmas. 01/07/2006 al 30/07/2006
ASSOCIATED CATALOGUE::
Pizarro, Esther (2006). Catálogo exposición: Inter-relaciones. Textos: Orlando Franco, Mariano de Santa Ana, Esther Pizarro. Edita: Colegio de Arquitectos de Canaria. Extensión: 48 páginas. Idioma: Español. Formato: 22x24 cm. Encuadernación: rústica. DL: GC-471-2006
