Gabinete de algunas contradicciones diarias | Catalina Mena

 

Artist’s book by Catalina Mena limited to 3 unique copies.

Gabinete de algunas contradicciones diarias (Cabinet of Some Daily Contradictions) is a winged book in leporello format that stems from the artist’s queries about socially-established cultural ideas around the domestic and the feminine.

This way, Mena’s work advances a contrast between two significant ideas: wings as an element linked to freedom and enjoyment, which invites reflection on the human desire to transcend. Meanwhile, the knife as a functional object comes to build the contradiction. Generating a dialogue between life and death and reality and dreams, the work serves as a hinge between survival and defense, ultimately prompting us to reflect on the atmosphere and fragility that form our reality.

 

$4,000,000 Pesos chilenos (CLP)

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Weight 8 kg
Dimensions 54 × 34 × 9 cm
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Catalina Mena (Santiago de Chile 1971) is a Chilean visual artist.
Her work is supported in different technical resources, always looking at the materiality alternatives to reflect on fragility as a quality of sense of human in relation to memory and body. For this reason, has been important the notion of memory that allows us to understand fragility from a proper human operation and from which it gets specific in its own operation system (remembrance), which entails important associated concepts: To remember and forget. Another key aspect in my reflections is that we perceive from and towards the body, being this is the generator of processes and meanings from our biography and perception of the world.

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Technical Specifications

Author: Catalina Mena

Techniques: mix media. drawings, paint, etc.

Materials: bronze, paper, acrylic and other metals.

Format: cardboard clamshell box, metal knife, die-cut foam accordion book framed in bronze, mixed technics.

Publisher: Naranja Publicaciones

Dimensions: 54 x 34 x 9 cm (box closed); Book size: 23 x 41 x 4,5 cm (closed), 134 x 23 cm (extended)

Print run: 3 original copies

Language: Spanish / English

Exhibitions: “Cuando escribo obras, mis manos piensan libros” at CCE Santiago, Chile.

Year of publication: 2019

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