Construcción de centro

Abstract

"Behold our era, devoted to the extermination of myth, the man of today stripped of myth, stands famished over his own past and must frantically dig, seeking his roots among the most remote antiquities". Villa's work reflects on the profound disconnection of modern human beings from myth and its sacred dimension. In an era oriented towards the extermination of myth, man appears stripped of his symbolic heritage, desperately digging among ancient vestiges to rediscover his roots. Performance or artistic action is proposed here as a means to reactivate those lost archetypes—gods, heroes, ancestors—which, when remembered, return to the present a primordial and timeless instant. The author denounces an artificial culture that has desacralized human experience, eroding spiritual life and generating global conflicts. Faced with this, the persistence of a mythological residue within us is vindicated, capable of offering revelations about time and existence from a sacred perspective. He also criticizes modern perception, conditioned by a belief system that confuses the real with appearances, constructing a worldview sustained by descriptions and not by authentic experiences. This "perceptual prejudice" prevents human beings from accessing deep levels of consciousness. The proposal is to recover the vision of the "warrior" who, by suspending the automatic description of the world, opens a path towards essential knowledge. In this context, art—understood as symbolic action and construction of meaning—becomes a way to re-connect with mythical time, dematerialize existence, and reintegrate creation with life. Aesthetic expression is thus transformed into a sacred act that seeks to reintegrate into the present the mythical force of origins, making us participants in the mystery and the metaphysical presence in all things.