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Roots

Material: Copper
Technique: Embossing and chiseling
Iconography: Origin and identity
Location: Personal collection
Description: Three-dimensional artwork of 19.7” (50 cm) x 19.7” (50 cm) x 11.8” (30 cm), based on an androgynous face. It includes the carving of a llama giving birth, inspired by the Vilacaurane pictograph.

The artist

“In the beginning I just had to make a piece for a documentary. I can make a face without a problem, I can make it while I am talking. I was doing it for a year, until I realized that I had to think about what it would wear on its head, and decided that it would not have hair, but a crown. For it, I chose a long design like the one of the birthing llama, giving it an identity connotation.

But I realized that I could not frame it because I was always short of space. Then, Carlos told me that I could not put a frame, thus I got the idea to lengthen the figure up and down below, by means of bronze rods.”