Pan American Art Projects, Florida. United State

Chanel Nexus Hall. Tokyo Japan

 

My Autum

Prayers I Prayers II Prayers III
Prayers IV Prayers V Wandering
Afloat Fugacious Itinerant
Fluid Still Ephemeral
Mar de Otono Horizons Nomads
Nomads II Nomads III Piel de Otoño
Selfie Palabra Muda Ruido
Dormida    
     

 

My Autumn

Mabel's experience during her residency course in Djerassi, Woodside, California, USA; resulted in the creation of the artwork “Around my own”. In this artwork she is interested in semantic potential relating two symbols, widely expanded in universal culture: Spiral and Pyramid. The above, allows her to talk about the place´s memory and the different ways of personal development. That’s why she uses archetypal representation of Spiral as a path of growth and physical transformation, but also spiritual.

So “My Autumn” reflects the path that has no limits, constant growth and, in some way, infinite, it also represents it from the presence of pyramidal origami shapes. A structure whose sense of ascension imitates reaching heaven, connecting those two levels that exist in parallel, but inescapably intertwined: heaven and earth.

These works reflect how life can be a kind of Spiral where it goes around in the same circle from each instant and moment. Autumn as a reflection of fading, simile to the season characterized by the shedding of the leaves of the trees into the air. Represented the fragility of life, the ephemeral and its instability. As a whole it can vanish and become nothing.

The defragmentation of bodies as a system of symbols that represent conceptions in individual moods and make up a whole. The energy that flows and the spirituality of individuals.

The series continues with the constant search of the artist to represent the lightness of existence and her concern for the experiences of human beings.

Birthplace

90 times I S-T S-T
Constellation Despertar a la vida Autorretrato
Family reunification    

 

Birthplace

Itꞌs the first series Mabel began to work on during her years as a student in San Alejandro Academy in which she use photographs  and real objects that have had a certain degree of relevance in her life anchored in familiar and personal costumes and memories. The pieces that conform this series establish a discourse based upon allusions to the children’s world and also from her hometown. Memories are a resource used by men in forming their self-identity, that is why this series is like a coming back to those places and experiences from her childhood.

In the formal aspect she reproduce images from the past to build up a sequence of facts that characterize the present time, and that do not necessarily mean they are identical to the series. In these portraits and self-portraits Mabel intended to intertwine aspects from the past making them a part of the present time. In this series there are also outstanding references of her ordinary life and her spiritual world which become a sort of therapy to the physical and psychic homesickness.

Abacuses

3 years 4 months and 22 days away 20 years 1 month and 5 days detail S-T
7300 Days 21 el 21 Not everything we see is real
S-T You're always present  

 

Abacuses

 

Mabel feels deeply interested in the humanꞌs mind capacity to violate the laws of Physics and the multidimensional possibility of mental time (as every object, the human mind has the capacity of moving, spreading and fragmenting) that is why in this series Abacuses She uses their formal structure and take it out of context with the aim of telling vivid facts from her memories. The abacus has been used by Eastern cultures for thousands of years as a tool for counting and making calculations that is the reason why She link it with time. She bases upon repetition to reconstruct events through recovered images which have been erased from the memory with the passing of time. Time becomes the main protagonist of this piece of art gathering memories and forgetfulness at the same time.

She has always been interested in creating a dialogue with the spectators as well as making them participants in each of her works of art; She intend to do this through a processed and ludic discourse and in this way continuing the logics of this series.

She use this instrument and its structure to talk about the stored time in her past and present life. The movable hoops vary according to the location given to the spectators and also according to the passing of days, the pieces of art also vary their form and content.

The abacus is combined with background images in which familiar events are shown and appear and disappear depending on the hoops placement. The created movement achieves to generate new visions from the same piece of art.

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