EXPERIENCE CONTAINED by Pedro Pacheco

STATEMENT

My paintings are a reflection in the search for forms produced by the loss of integrity, of globalization, the lack of security, complexity and the mutation of the values in the world today, so confusing, fragmented, and indecipherable.
I explore the sense of our time, the transcendence of human being, the polarities of these ideas : Destruction and rebirth, glory and shame, sin and redemption.
Creeds and “religions” appear to be configured as alternative mythologies.
There are new pseudo religions and new systems of thought to give a
comprehensive explanation and setup man in the world. Is the men that decide to make a disinterested search for truth that leads them to the Absolute.
The question is to persist in the pursuit of truth, the missing values, the faith and dignity of our human condition. Find the meaning of truth and its foundation for our future.
My paintings are also a visual meditations of a internal and individual vision.
I like the light, the inner light of being that connects to the light of consciousness that is universal.
My paintings are my tool for survival, reflecting perhaps, the passage of time when life hurts to walk the years.
It's like trying to paint a poem on each painting….but in spite of everything, always encourages me in the hope of finding the light in each step.
The only thing that is important to me is to continue working.

In this specific Series: “Contained Experiences” my statement is:
My artworks (photographs and painted photographs) of this series that is title “Contained Experiences” are condensed signs, visual scars. This process does not intend to give a tragic sense of the images, but a way to express the content of the experience gained over the years.
The suffering expressed as fragments of pain in each image speak about life that has passed through the pain and whose biography has been circumscribed in the image, where violence and ambiguity result in new forms and stimuli, as well as a gesture or cry, as desperate communication or dramatic externalization of inner feeling.

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