25/05/2024
"Quemando la Casa" by artist Marcos Castro
Feb 6th – Apr 29th, 2024
@ Maia Contemporary
'For "Quemando la Casa" (Burning Down the House), Castro employs the element of fire as the silent protagonist in scenes where the spectator has the viewpoint of being inside a house burning down while looking through windows that show an external reality of vibrant scenes of Nature. In a gestural tone, exuberant plants, rivers, and wild animals take over what looks like an abandoned civilization.
By expressing this act of destruction, he sets a renewal cycle. The regeneration is seen as a purification process where fire transforms everything it encounters; it's the archetypal force of transmutation.
For Carl Jung, the House symbolizes our psyche, a manifestation of the soul. Our homes are amongst the most primal of our collective symbols, our shelter, the limit between me and "the world."'
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