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Wall-mounted artwork, 83 designs
Élie Faure writes about The Disasters of War, the emblematic series of eighty-three
engraved works
by Goya:
“Never before had black and white found such an opportunity to express so vividly
the power of the diametrical oppositions of light and darkness.”
Sad forebodings of what is to come, With reason or without it, The Same, Women give
courage, And they are like wild beasts, This is what you deserve, What courage,
This always
happens, They do not want to, Nor these, Nor these, This is why you were born, Bitter
presence, The road is hard, And there is no remedy, They take advantage, They do not agree,
Bury and be silent, There is no other time, Heal them, then we go for others, It will be the
same, So many and even more, The same elsewhere, They are still useful, The same with
these, You cannot see this, Compassion, The common people, He deserved it, The disasters
of war, This is too much, Why, What more can be done, For a knife, No one knows why, Not
even in this case, This is worse, Barbarians, Great deeds, on the dead, There is something to
gain, They flee through the flames, Everything is upside down, The same with this one, I saw
this, And this too, This is bad, So it happened, Harsh shame, A woman’s compassion,
Unfortunate mother, Thanks to the millet, They did not arrive in time, Nothing could be done
and he died, Vain laments, The worst is to beg, At the cemetery, The healthy and the sick,
You shout in vain, What can a cup do to you, There is no one to help them, Perhaps they are
of another breed, The beds of death, A pile of dead bodies, Carts loaded for the cemetery,
What is this noise, Strange devotion, This is no less remarkable, What madness, Nothing. We
shall see, They do not know the way, Contrary to the common good, The results, Deceitful
pantomime, This is the worst, A troupe of charlatans, The carrion vulture, Look, the rope is
breaking, He defends himself well, Truth is dead, Will it rise again, Fierce monster, This is the
truth, Dishonorable profit
Materials: Processed cotton, ashes
Dimensions: 2.50m Height x 2.50m Width
Each piece: 15cm Height x 20cm Width
The duration of the pandemic, which in many ways recalled conditions of war,
became the inspiration for a dialogue with Goya’s eighty-three engraved works.
CoIon, as a natural, pristine-white material used both to produce our clothes and
to close our wounds, is employed in this work to achieve absolute whiteness and,
through fire, to pass into black.
We create eighty-three drawings made of burned
coIon, in the same dimensions as Goya’s engravings, measuring 15 cm in height
and 20 cm in width. Finally, the titles of Goya’s works are composed into a single,
unified text, which we present together as a reminder of a condition that seems to
have no end and no season.