Cuarto de guerra

Abstract

When facing the sacred and profane it tends to oppose two concepts that, apparently, cannot share the same space or, if they share it, they will be eclipsing or constantly invalidating each other. The same way happens for religion and art, not from the historical context that shows how these two institutions have complemented each other, but from the conflicts that they produce in a person who wants to be an artist and at the same time defines himself as a Christian believer as they are defined as contrary. From these dogmatic, conceptual, family and experiential conflicts, a room was created in which, through profanation and criticism, three altars meet, through the appropriation of symbols that, from my religion, represent the ways in which the body is conceived: the first as a transmitter and symbol of authority. Second, the body as the duty to be, which frames the stereotypes and obligations of a woman. Finally the third, as the body that feeds, where it is defined what is sacred and profane, pure and impure, what must enter the body to sanctify it more. Thereby "WAR ROOM" reflects through theoretical research, the artistic practice of the installation and video, about the processes that religion uses in the quest for the search, teaching and implementation of holiness and a true relationship with God, but that ultimately cancels all relationship and closeness with the idea of God.