Show me your depths; I will show you mine
Muéstrame tus profundidades; yo te mostraré las mías
It appropriates and allies itself with the aesthetics of punk, the rebellious, the spontaneous. It gives voice to a series of self-care proclamations through textile and installation pieces, giant banners, alter egos, thoughts, scales, disproportionate eye shadows, screams, body shakes and venting movements that become a metaphor for a refuge and scenarios of possibility and resistance.
Show me your depths; I will show you mine, invites you to go inside yourself and inhabit your dark and silenced spaces. It takes over codes and languages typical of Rock and the punk attitude, whose history can be traced from da-daism to situationism, an attitude revived in contemporary artistic production, taking up that attitude in a new moment, like noise, cut-out typography , anti-design and ugliness; or the inclusion of direct musical references. Denial, speed and lack of virtuosity is its leitmotif. “No future” was one of the slogans that punk appropriated from previous cultural movements, punk as an adjective that qualifies a way of understanding the world.
Show me your depths; I will show you mine, Gema Polanco's project for ARTE SANTANDER, is defined as the attitude of denial, opposition and destruction; the reference to fear and terror in a society that alienates individuals; nihilism; criticism of the economic system and anarchy.
Show me your depths; I will show you mine is a demand for a neo-sexual liberation, the body as a place of battle in a new artistic production that reveals the main elements that define the attitude of a new generation of artists as a way of understanding culture and, therefore, extension, of being in the world.
Show me your depths; I will show you mine highlight our feminine vulnerability, thus referring to self-care and health to talk about the transformative journey and metamorphosis that comes with self-knowledge and self-care. A cry of confidence and fatigue.
All embroidered pieces are made with a modified domestic sewing machine, allowing them to be used performatively, making a non-linear journey of simultaneous construction and deconstruction.
We are contradiction, “we are this and that”, we are complex, we are with others. We mutate, we transform and we look for a way to be true to ourselves, with the desire to leave behind care for survival or necessity as the only way of existence.