SmileS
Smiles is a project running since may of 2010. I collect pictures and images from different source (old newspaper, personal pictures, internet), I simplify them and I add one or more smiles and the word "smile" in the picture (always in different ways).
This project started while I was living in Belgium. I had in my mind the picture of the SMILE that was everywhere in the 80's. It was for me like a detached, disconnected and independent creature always smiling to everything. It wasn't neither bad, neither good, just not really connected to the world. In my work I try to represent this feeling. The SMILE is something with an ambigous name (that should be linked to happiness) but, in reality, it is just like a piece of matter, always changing, that crosses every aspect of our world and life, appearing in it and showing to us how much it can be detached from it. At the same time putting us in front of our void.
Ink on paper
This project started while I was living in Belgium. I had in my mind the picture of the SMILE that was everywhere in the 80's. It was for me like a detached, disconnected and independent creature always smiling to everything. It wasn't neither bad, neither good, just not really connected to the world. In my work I try to represent this feeling. The SMILE is something with an ambigous name (that should be linked to happiness) but, in reality, it is just like a piece of matter, always changing, that crosses every aspect of our world and life, appearing in it and showing to us how much it can be detached from it. At the same time putting us in front of our void.
Ink on paper