Naval Lucia (Huesca, 1994) is able to carefully observe it, seeing his closest and banal daily life with other eyes, A privileged look that the public can feel in the exhibition Embodied text, drawn bodyopened this Friday at the Manuel Benito Moliner Cultural Center in Huesca.
“This project was born as an exercise to carefully observe what you have next to and take that object, that scene or that idea and turn it over, transforming it. Encourage the inanimate is the idea about which I work”, Says the artist to this newspaper.
In his investigation of the different languages of drawing and text they sprout different techniques and materials that surprise for its diversity and creativity.
And is that, In this multidisciplinary sample there is no lack of anything: engraving, embroidery, performance, direct drawing, animation, an artist book, installation, comics and even a suit.
In this way, The exhibition “is really different from techniquesbecause each piece really is a world within its own universe, ”he continues.
In this line, Oscense tells that each work “has its own speech, although all are crossed by the intervention of the text or drawing. It is as if, in some way All, having different bodies and natures, spoke the same language”, resume.
Recycle materials and give them a new life is another of the maxims of the samplein which Naval has rescued from oblivion newspapers -many of them, of Diario del Altoaragón -, Tetra Briks or Tote Bags, “objects that we have very established and that for me tend to accumulation”, concrete.
Repetition is also present in the works In different waysas in its creative process, since thanks to this way of working “we arrive at conclusions or learn” before reaching “the objective”: “I have a first idea, I do it and there is something that tells me that I want to insist, understand and do better,” abounds.
Naval, that always Explore this concept “from the organic”also shows the repetition in the “cumulative deployment” of the exhibition, which “is still the sum of the same thing,” he confirms.
A complete performance the sample
At the inauguration of the exhibition, in which the public has shown their love and recognition to Naval with great applause, The artist has given away some brushstrokes of the performance I have said no.
The actress also, who for this performance has made an original Tote Bags dress, This piece will star on May 17 and 24at 8:00 p.m., in the same room.
Finally, the artist thanks the City Council for the opportunity to exhibit her “First individual exhibition” In his city. “I am very excited to have the freedom to show this synthesis of my last years and my obsessions,” concludes Naval, which will continue to show his universe in the old slaughterhouse until May 25.
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