MADRES, MONSTRUOS Y MAQUINAS. ACTO III: LLANTOS
Video installation, sound landscape. Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Mexico City, February 2024
Mothers, Monsters and Machines is a project of artistic investigation and corporal exploration directed by the artist Lucrezia de Fazio and divided into 3 acts that questions the interrelationships between the concepts of mother, monster and machine. The third chapter of Mothers, Monsters and Machines titled Act III: Llantos will be presented on February 11 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City.
Mothers, Monsters and Machines. Act III: Llantos is an environmental video installation composed of three videos that explore parts of the body of the artist placed in relation to natural elements and immersed in a soundscape created by Darío Acuña.
Lucrezia de Fazio thinks about the intimate act of loving as a response to the change. Taking inspiration from the transformative moments of childbirth and generation, the exhibition is a visual odyssey through the intricate labyrinth of the body and captures the essence of the heart like a portal: a ritual of the moment, a cross of one dimension to another.
The body, portrayed as a container in continuous transformation, serves as a reason to question the conventional wisdom of identity through the lens of Rosi Braidotti's post-human feminism. The body is converted into symbolic representations, intertwining the organic and the artificial. The exploration of the earth as a powerful symbol of childbirth and relationships with women is converted into a commentary on the interconnection of life and the profound cycles of birth, death and rebirth.
Llantos also contemplates the sensorial experience of the transition, asking the question: How do you hear a sound for the first time? De Fazio masterfully captures the moment in which a born container, emerging from a closed and dampened environment, passes into an open and amplified external world after its birth. This exploration of new sensations serves as a metaphor for the broader human experience of embracing change and entering into the unknown.