'Form and Performance', by Ana Laura Aláez

This installation is a personal and intimate review of "sculpture" as a vital discipline in art.

You could say that the piece "SPIRAL-HEAD-HEAD-FIST-CUM-KNOT" is a statement about sculpture.

Six organic forms, abstract and with identical sizes. The jackets have been actually used, the skin is a little wasted, like the hide of a butchered animal, open, exposed to the elements. As a crucifixion. I treat in the same plane the noble qualities of a classic bronze with the everyday qualities of leather jackets.

I've always been interested in the topic of the pedestal, as a volume in itself autonomous. One could consider leather jackets are the "pedestals" where the form is based, from where the sculpture emerges.

Each bronze with black patina is an autonomous sculpture. These volumes are the full size of six persons. Drawing an imaginary line with empty space between them. One flies flanking the absence and presence. It delineates the emotional anatomy, the part of the trunk with the parts which theoretically express feelings: the stomach, heart .... However, the six forms could be also heads. The head is one of the most recurrent themes of representation in my career.

The overall vision of the piece suggests a latent gender message, or rather, the same inversed. A transgression of male-female definition from the autobiographical perspective of the experience. The genre can not be defined. The entire set of six sculptures has a sharp narrative approach. A statement of how art-comes-even under the worst circumstances ... or those who do not, by definition, necessarily be artistic. In this case is something like an explosion, which literally springs in the back. Something that is modeled with experience strokes. I want show the timelessness and rotundity of form.