March 17, 2023

Two busts of a woman and a man are made up of fragments of their own faces, like archaeological remains, multiple and fragmented, of their history. A history that comes to an end when the sculptures crumble, soft and inconsistent, around roses or penetrated by lilies. If in the baroque vanitas the flowers represented a pleasant but ephemeral existence, here they remain, the fleetingness is only human. Marina Núñez presents the two single-channel videos Vanitas (1), Vanitas (2), 2019, in the exhibition CRYPTO ART: A NEW POSSIBILITY EXHIBITION at the Dynamicart Museum.

“At first they thought this wasn’t art, that I was crazy. That’s what they said about the impressionists and now their images are on boxes of chocolates. I hope that the same thing will happen with my body,” said the artist ORLAN at the press conference held during the opening of Weeping women Are Angry.

Don’t miss the press article published here.