Friday, August 13, 2010

White Spot On My Gum From Whitestrips

QUIÑONEZ. VERONICA






My personal history has been built in the end, because for me there is no middle ground. I am an artist living in day to day, I think there is no return, there is everything "days were better" nor do I believe that the future may be, only the present, the immediate is what allows us to survive. My memories, my memory is expressed in a work of art, the scar is the memory latency, is a mark on the body, is the experience that is full of pictures that hit my senses.

"... it is rather the memory of the experience. And as we all know, all have a bad memory, the memory always fades ... disappearing what interests me is the memory that is being forgotten and that's where my work fits ... "

The artwork helps us to think about memory and reinterpreting it. It is not about reliving a moment but closer to that time and somehow immortalize. Seeking to make scars in the memory, the memory materialized, and so the memory does not forget.

My work is to immortalize family experiences and change what it meant to live in the countryside to live in a city then, social conflicts. This work is autobiographical because it shows my experiences and what you interpret them. Are my problems and my ways of solving them. Coca and cocaine are the symbolic objects of my work by my proximity to the plant and its process, and the influence it has had on my personal and artistic development. The coca plant as a symbol, as a drug, such as business, as part of the Colombian icons.

One thing is how the government shows the production and consumption of a plant that they have been seen as cursed, prosecuted as a crime in any scale.
Another thing is the way it perceives the coca and cocaine from the comfort of a chair, a television control and flip-flops while you smell.
Another thing, is what I said, is to feel the entire process firsthand, be part of the alchemy and all that involves marketing. This artwork is the result of direct involvement and visual thinking all I've done so far derived from the process.

is important to me coca and cocaine, while seeking to legitimize the plant and the drug through art that people see the process behind their production and consumption, problems and answers it brings to society .

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