The power of FAMILY
For someone like me, the family is the most important thing there is. Family teaches us what’s like to have someone who cares and to have someone to always rely on when you can’t rely on yourself. Human connections, apart from other things, is what characterizes us as human beings, and at the end of the that’s all we have. Also, the family is not only your relatives, it is much more than that. As a person is very fond of human connections, I know that the people that truly care for you, are the ones you have to keep close.
This is why the theme and conductive thread of this art exhibition is family. Throughout the whole exhibition you will see the different approaches I had towards family: a family of blood, by choice, or the school community. I made collages, paintings, cuttings, structures, interventions… And each one of them was related to the family in its own unique way.
After two years creating artworks for an art exhibition I can truly say that the importance of art has changed for me. I never thought badly of art, but neither thought of it at all. At the end of these interesting years, my perspective of art is more profound than just an esthetic tool. I still think it works for that too, but by creating something and attach multiple meaning, and putting important themes to me in it, made me understand that every artwork has its own special meaning and, from now on, when I see an art piece I will think about it and thank my art exhibition from 2018-2020; because, how could I not?
ARTWORKS
Title: Falling to pieces.
Size: 36.5 cm x 50.5
Date: 2019
Technique: acrylic paint and paperboard in cardboard
Author: Laura Recine
This project was initially related to the power of family. Family teaches us to love, security, compromise, loyalty, affection, among others…Not only family like parents, siblings, but also the school and my friends. This was the main reason I chose it as my conductive thread. For this project, I cut pieces of a puzzle and pasted them throughout the whole artwork, and this way it stuck out. This artwork is meant to represent my feelings and the dynamic in my family. The meaning is that we always try to stick together and our journey through it, also, how, at least in my family, we have stayed unified through everything we have lived.
Size: 50cm long
Date: June 2019
Technique: collage (digital)
Author: Laura Recine
Title: Harmony behind chaos
The idea of this project was to create a collage to represent the ups and downs my family has. I included contrast between light and darkness, to represent unity and division, happiness, and sadness… I used a landscape: in the part of the light, I included a sunrise with colors, and in the part of darkness, a thunderstorm and rain. To represent that thing of ups and downs, I placed a silhouette of a family in the middle of all the light and darkness. The reason the darkness is the thing that predominates the college is because of the order I intended the spector to see it: first the darkness and the chaos and then realizing there are hope and light behind it. (the sunrise is behind the thunderstorm).
Title: Colors
Size: 36cm x 36.5cm
Date: May, 2020
Technique: Acrylic paint on cardboard
Author: Laura Recine
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For this project, I was going to do a mural in the Colegio Departamental de la Calera. We already went to the school to evaluate and decide where were we going to do it, and we took a few pictures of possible spaces. The infrastructure of the school is not the best, there’s also a graffiti that’s about to faint and the walls of the outer part of the school are empty, this is why we wanted to make something that will make them look at it and not see those empty walls. Due to quarantine, we weren’t able to do the actual mural, so I did a version of a smaller version to represent the colors the school would have gained. The reason for making this mandala, like I already said, was to give the school a little light. The infrastructure is not the best, and we thought that making something esthetic to it, will enlighten students’ experience. Also, I think a mural like this and the effect we hoped it would get, is related to my conductive thread (family) because of the unity of it all. Not only in the making process but in what would have been the final project.
Title: Close, but far away
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Size: 60cm long
Date: May, 2020
Technique: photograph
Author: Laura Recine
The main themes of this artwork are quarantine and nostalgia. I took a picture of my sister (in relation to my conductive thread) with a mouth cap watching the empty streets due to coronavirus and quarantine. In this picture, I wanted to represent the nostalgia someone may feel about them staying in their house and their inability to go out to the streets. In my case, every day I look down my terrace and see the streets I used to walk every day, that’s why I used that spot in to take the picture. And regarding the filter, I decided to put the inside of the house in black and white, and the outside en color to represent that nostalgia.
Title: Family doesn’t always mean related.
Size: 60x70cm
Date: September 2019
Technique: intervention
Author: Laura Recine
It was a series of pictures of the community, pasted in a wall of the school. Each photo had a filter on, which altogether made them look like three strings of the color green, red and blue, which are the colors of the school. This project was really connected with my conductive thread because I wanted to represent the whole community as a family, which is my conductive thread. The project was done just after the Día de las Casas, so the community was very united because it is an event that causes this. Everyone liked the project; the teacher came to me to ask for the meaning of it and to congratulate me on it. I saw and took pictures, of the students standing in front of to see if they were in the pictures and to just see it. So I concluded that it was a very good artistic intervention.
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