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Little bear prepared for the end of the world. Sculpture
Lo que vemos no es solo un peluche intervenido, sino la solidificación de un mecanismo defensivo. Es la cristalización de una defensa primitiva: “si lo destruyo yo, el otro no podrá hacerlo”.
El peluche está ahí, pero ya no es un juguete. Es una reliquia endurecida de la ternura pasada. En su superficie rugosa, metálica, se agolpan capas de abandono, furia, amor infantil encapsulado y lodo emocional.
Ya no sirve para abrazar. No puede ser apretado. No puede ser roto.
«Osito preparado para el fin del mundo». Por: Elisa Alvarez
This object—a sculptural piece that still retains the formal memory of a child’s stuffed animal—has been subjected to a material hardening process. Jesús Lara Sotelo, as in so many of his works, here resorts to what has already been touched by life. But this time not to rescue it, but to declare it irreparable.
What we see is not just an altered stuffed animal, but the solidification of a defensive mechanism. It is the crystallization of a primitive defense: «If I destroy it, the other won’t be able to.»
The stuffed animal is there, but it is no longer a toy. It is a hardened relic of past tenderness. On its rough, metallic surface, layers of abandonment, fury, encapsulated childhood love, and emotional sludge accumulate.
It is no longer suitable for hugging. It cannot be squeezed. It cannot be broken.
«Little bear prepared for the end of the world.» By: Elisa Alvarez
Title Little bear prepared for the end of the world
Technique Mixed on intervened and hardened plush.
Year 2010
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