Artist Statement

Why? The human being needs to define a space, stablish frontiers, mark a territory, identify it, experiment it in order to stablish references . They need to comunicate and express to others what is common among them. It is precisely those messages of intimacy originating from the everyday perception of their exterior and interior world, that give sense to their life. I belief that the territorial concept as a recognizable space does not exist since the present territory is in constant change. It is a space in which frontiers move, generating an uneasy atmosphere where the references that give meaning to the human existence are lost. It is an uncertain space. Our Identitiy has dissapeared just as our ability to memorize. I feel that the phisical reality of a territory has been the best scenario for those changes. In it ? as in a silent map ? all of our dreams are represented and human beings have threaded a wide network of relations that shape it. That shape is the reflection of the inhabitants quality of life and the period which they belong to. ?My interest lies in silent maps? What? The core of my reflection lies in the definition of spaces through cartography. It is the search for references, of credible assumptions, distances, proportions and it?s relationship with the human scale. It is a sort of passion for measurements?To measure is to compare, to search for similarities that reveal something within ourselves. It is about producing an internal eco. When you measure and compare, experiences connect with memories via the truth. The truth offers messages of intimacy with which the soul thinks, it can stablish relations threading the world with one?s fantasy. To choose a destiny of milimiters and distances has led me to think that art is the unique spatial science. My search is to dominate space, posses it, that, I consider a basic gesture an equilibrated expresion, of continuity?of life. To occupy space is the first test of existence. I work in the creation of new threads formed by communication lines that examine human life and insist in the idea of patterns as the center for the vital relations of everything. This threads allow me to reconstruct the lost notion of territory through a system of open and flexible structures constituted by recorridos, trazos, trayectos or prints that are dislocated or displaced from their original place and that engage original readings bringing messages that relate with our sorroundings, messages of closeness?messages of truth. I feel an enormous interest in rescuing lost territories in present times, physical territories, cultural and spiritual. In showing our fragility and vulnerability but at the same time expressing the everlasting essence of things. All this reflected in the definition of space through a cartography that travels to the most intimate space: memory?

Carola Bravo