Montaje

Abstract

This visual essay addresses the notion of “figural realism,” understood as the act of intersecting specific biographical events with collective historical occurrences, to trigger a concrete visual arts practice within the context of the 2020 pandemic. Through an economy of means—white paper, pencils, folding and cutting—the work sought to understand what relationships can be assembled between a family story about a submarine and the confinement resulting from the pandemic.
The process sought to take my own biographical story as a performative update of current events, leaving aside the enclosuresness of my very subjectivity to engage it with other´s experiences. The goal was to create a possible landscape, a possible reality, out of my own biography with pandemic wise global confinement.
 

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