Giulietta Pastorino Verastegui
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I am in transition. My artistic practice goes beyond. I tend to see when colours talk to each other; specifically the pigments that I have brought from my native country. There is an insuperable longing. A rooted melancholia that drives the need to produce. We have conversations with each other with their carrier, fabric, which allows us to transfer their energy into different forms. I am in process We tend to make a work, and then reuse it to transfer to another volume. The space surrounding ourselves changes with the artwork, and then the artwork changes with the space. Sometimes we are irrational. And sometimes we wait and let time take an important position with us. We like contrasts; soft and hard, and we like the comfort of our lives merging together The movements of our hands guide us, We experiment We laugh We cry It is deeply personal as we weave stories into place and connect with our dreamlands How reflection is the key to the world beyond our eyes – a catharsis
GRADUATION PROJECT
Extractos de Locura y Baños de Sol / Extracts of Madness and Sunbathing
Abril 22, 2020 21:14
dias de dias de dias,
encontre canas en mi pelo,
dias de dias de dias,
pongo, borro y vuelvo empezar.
atrapada en un tornado
pero aun asi, yo solo me salvo.
cuando la musica esta besandome
besando la luz solar,
la luz de mi sombra
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I want to share this process. I am always questioning my control over the artworks, especially since I tend to be intertwined with them in a deep personal way. Whenever I dye the unbleached cotton blocks, I create a ritual for the natural pigments from my home country to accept their carrier, the textile, and achieved those vibrant colours. The colours talk and interact with each other bringing portals of different realities. How have I started to try to release my influence? (And releasing the negative energies that fogged my brain these uncertain months?) I call this the “working title; unpigmentation sunbathing transformation”, when coloured unbleached cotton becomes bleached where sun and moonlight touches and leaves some traces of pigment intact. The colour blocks have been rotating in the space of my home balcony through these months extracting the energies from winds, rains, and thunderstorms to cosmic forces like the direct sunlight and full moons. Let’s see where this goes.
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space 1;
extractos de locura
extracts of madness
hypersaturation of colour
well made vs breaking
dualities working together
in process
thoughts
time
space 2;
baños de sol
sunbathing
the obsession liberated
cosmic presences instead of other dimensions
photograms
lightness
the spatial ratios
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September 30, 2020 14:58
Reflection;
There is so much pigment/works in one side, that when you enter the other room, there is a sense of relief. I was looking through old texts from previous courses by Moholy-Nagy, and I realized the subtle connection between photography and my work. Both, photography and this project work with light. I feel like my project is a long exposure photogram of the five months and fourteen days of madness and sunbathing. It shows the incredible effect on the weather, the time passing by these months of uncertainty, the wave of heat depending on the rotation of the colour blocks, it shows the vastness of my balcony compared to other balconies in the Netherlands. Now, because of circumstances, I recently moved to another house with a smaller balcony. These extracts of madness are slowly becoming more orderly, and that time will be a pocket dimension in my ouvre.The newly sunbathed color blocks show this other reality; the after image of a time of uncertainty, lockdown, madness, deep depression, and the abilty to liberated this energies by leaving control aside. This time will not be able to be replicated.
THESIS
Paracas 1983; Notes of Ambivalent Nature
On Cecilia Vicuña's film Paracas (1983) and its ambivalent nature within a post-colonial discourse.