Alea iacta est, 2022. |
It is popularly said that when around January 11, 49 B.C. the troops of the Legio XIII Gemina with Julius Caesar in command cross the Rubicon River, that is, the border between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy, thus beginning a bloody civil war that would force Pompey to retreat to Greece and the East, the president pronounced the words alea iacta est (the die is cast). The artist's fragile health at the end of 2021 was complicated by a COVID-19 infection in the final days of the year. A process that, given her previous state of health, led her to spend several months in bed recovering from the consequences that the infection had left. Her neurological system had been affected and she had trouble moving some parts of her body. This work was born as part of the recovery exercises that she did to regain manual dexterity. She created a multitude of characters that she assembled and disassembled with the same pieces, but these two characters survived the others and she kept them in a closet. When she recovered and saw them again, she became aware of what those pieces had meant in her recovery and how at the moment she was aware of the COVID-19 infection she knew that the path that awaited her to go through the disease and its consequences was probably it wouldn't be easy. |
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