Of Chaos and the Cosmos
Tània Font
06 April - 30 June 2023
There is no creation without destruction.
We must die to create again.
Ideas have to die to be able to begin to move forward from another perspective.
For something new to be born.
Of Chaos and the Cosmos is the name of the sculpture exhibition by Tania Font that we will host this spring at The Eleven House.
The artist’s work tells us about destruction and its related genesis. Of death and life, in their literal but also psychological sense, projected inside and outside.
We will learn about Tania Font’s artistic proposal through a collection of three exuviae (the exoskeleton abandoned by arthropods such as insects, crustaceans, etc.) and several sculptures that she calls “chrysalises” to talk about this beginning that appears after the end of something, as a beautiful metaphor for change and transcendence.
“With the exuviae I seek to share a reflection on the metaphorical concept of shedding one’s skin. About preserving what is essential and getting rid of what is not useful to us, creating change, about the metamorphosis we experience as human beings.
I speak of the remains of what we have been and what has been part of us, what we leave behind, what disintegrates in us in order to continue existing.
I talk about the metamorphosis of the human being, the invitation to change, about the remodelling of mental patterns and pre-established ideas to be able to create something new, through the birth of new ideas, of a new life.
For me the Chrysalises are a project of a living being. It does not yet have its final form, it is in the process of growth, and we can interpret it on a physical level and also on a psychological level.
This new being, this new way of being in the world will be beautiful, it will be able to fly beyond what we are able to, it will be able to generate new knowledge and generate greater life.”
Artists
Tània Font
Trained in various disciplines such as painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture and jewellery, Tania Font has worked on creating hyper-realistic scientific sculpture.
Her artistic production, focused on sculpture and painting, is notable for the presence of the human figure, paying special attention to feelings and psychological processes.
With a desire to explain subjective experiences, her work reflects on the construction and deconstruction of the human being. It also follows the difficult relationship that women have had with the word: a long history of silences.
This is also how the artist Andrés Hispano defines it:
“Who knows if, as art, Tania Font’s
sculptures are the elaboration of an enigma
with which to respond to others.”
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