Organza , satin, yarn, laser cut, dimensions variable, 600 x 38 cm, 2015
The artwork refers to a poem by Idea Vilariño, Amor (1958). The verse lasercut into the textile forms an infinity loop.
Idea Vilariño (Uruguay, 1920-2009). Her father, a poet, loved poems and ideas, and named one of his daughters Poema and the other Idea. In sympathy with the struggle against the Uruguayan regime, in 1951 she published Por aire sucio (Through Dirty Air); followed by Nocturnos (1955) and Poemas de amor (1958). Like many Latin American poets, Vilariño became politically active, and in the early sixties wrote stirring revolutionary folk songs, made popular by the singer René Zavaleta. Shorn of all excess and pretense, her spare poems gain maximum effect with seemingly minimal effort; their silences resound. In 1973 a military coup in Uruguay defeated the opposition and eclipsed all cultural life. Denied outlets of expression, the intellectuals fled into exile, but Vilariño remained, in grim, solitary silence. Hers is „a poetry dealing with love and the feminine condition“, revealing „the tragic devaluation of woman and at the same time her profound superiority to man „.
Love
It ruins me I break it it undoes me I smash it it helps me I lift it all full of peace unbound it asks me and I ask it it defeats me and I defeat it it finishes me and I finish it.
