Cocoons

The series Cocoons explores the concept of metamorphosis: using my mother’s body as a matrix, the works are inspired by the image of the chrysalis and analyse the different stages of a body transforming into a new and hybrid being, reduced to its primal element: the flesh. If sculptures I and II present a more tense and compact figure with recognisable limbs, Cocoon III is an empty shell, the abandoned carcass that remains after the transition. Although it can be interpreted as the final stage of the metamorphosis, it is also the beginning of something new: empty, fragile, and stripped of its sculptural materiality. It develops in fragments that ‘are not necessarily the evidence of a world in pieces, the consequences of violence; but rather the material with which we can reconstruct’.