Irene Zottola
SPAIN
Using pages from an encyclopedia found in the street and copies made on a drawing pad with liquid emulsion in the laboratory, this project establishes a parallelism between the flight of birds and human beings, as well as their relationship with the environment and their life journey.
In order to escape from the labyrinth in which they had been imprisoned, Daedalus built wings for himself and his son Icarus. Flying they would be free. Icarus' enthusiasm as he took flight caused him to fly too close to the sun. The heat melted the wax that joined the wings to his back and he ended up falling into the sea, where he drowned.
Throughout history, a relationship has been established between the human being and the sky, between the desire to FLY and the physical and symbolic meaning it entails.
There is a dynamic of contrary and complementary elements in flight: the eternal and ascending versus the perishable and descending, the hope and anguish of the act of learning to FLY and thus rise or fall to the ground: life and death. There is despair and exhaustion in the face of the desire and illusion of flying.
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