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Solve et Coagula
Dissolving the substantial, regularly volatising the fixed and coagulating the incorporeal are necessary exercises in liquation, weight loss and crystallisation as something that can be combined in the same operation that is both mental and material.
We harbour, however, a permanent suspicion that the action of constructing may also be an affirmative fear which acts as a spell against dissolution and death. And so, in order to escape from our own despair, we build on the permanent and that helps us endure existence by simulating our immortality.The opposite edge of the real emerges in the interstices as a doubt about that which is known and a glimmer of that which is possible. Doing is undoing oneself, Solve et Coagula separates the underlying formlessness and extracts the volatile essence, without forgetting the difficult method of making the ethereal solid without passing through a liquid state.
The metal plate becomes a protective screen, wall, reflection, architecture and route. It rises erect before the eyes from its horizontal origin, making visual that which was originally only a receptacle, a deposit and an action. A constructive process in which scarcely any gestural or manual action has been involved, only a game of dice on the board, a spillage without trace and a reactive, random chemical action. Temperature, atmospheric humidity and time have brought about its fixation. It is a contradictory urge, a permanent fragility and insecurity tied
to the aesthetic of the consistent, of the corporeal, of necessary decisions and of the futile affirmation of eternity. An aura which arises and remains beyond us.
It is sculpture understood as a system that regulates material operations and a correlative principle of obediences and correspondences. A sort of invisible symmetry which establishes an order and a measure in the visible and which causes things to be perfect owing to their similarity with the identifying elements which express it.
Solve et Coagula is death coexisting with life itself, a double image which warns of fissure and separation, and which evidences the
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