PLAY OF CHILDREN
“Play of
children” is a project of exhibition that emerged some years ago thanks to the
happy and unexpected find of an old chest and a doll gnawed by mice in the
attic of my country house.
The rest
came easily. With feverish periods of
creativity and with some fleeting ups and downs , this unusual and a bit
delirious exhibition was growing up.
Chests,
boxes, old furniture, dolls, cables, barbs, nuts and screws. These are the
creative elements that shape this work, sometimes found by chance among the
toys of my nephews and nieces or in the recycling bins of any corner and, some
others, bought in little neighbourhood shops, chinese
bazaars and Swedish department stores.
Sometimes rummaging feverishly through piles of waste and recycled
materials and, some others, picking placidly the things that Nature rewarded me
while I was strolling. In this way, little by little, this work was taking
shape, product of seams, joints and
attachments of materials.
“Play of children”
is not a tribute to the psychological terror and the easy blood, neither to the
trendy gothic aesthetic of black tears and ridiculous Halloween pumpkins. This work has treated to delve into the topics
of the “innate” cruelty of children and the most grotesque aspects of the
horror, shrouded in dark and sometimes decadent atmosphere, but very pop, kitsch and surreal as well, with
evil concessions for a language that, apparently, may seems raw, ambiguous and
a bit cruel, but with a rather caustic and ironic undertone.
There have
been used the very recurrent and almost classic motives of the evil children
and the diabolical toys, trying to suggest a different message, exaggerating to
the most baroque paroxysme these cliché of the terror, with the intention of minimize
partly its tragic content and form a sarcastic parody of the horror.
“play of
children” is exactly this, a play. An entertainment and a delight for those who
enjoy the dark and romantic aesthetic.
A macabre,
ironic and corrosive joke of these topics of the horror that, nowadays, almost
frighten anybody.