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Artworks
Fernando Polidura
CF Thirteen, 2023Human hair embroidered on cotton paper9 x 11.8 x 2.4 in
22.8 x 30 x 6 cmFurther images
This series emerged as an imperative action in response to the daily life into which the artist was suddenly immersed during the confinement due to the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. In response...This series emerged as an imperative action in response to the daily life into which the artist was suddenly immersed during the confinement due to the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. In response to this situation, he developed an equally severe and rigorous exercise in which he embroiders human hair on cotton paper, raw materials provided by the immediacy of his environment.
The resulting meticulous works arise from the need to generate a placebo that counters the anxiety and constant desire for control caused by obsessive-compulsive disorder, a particular condition that undermines the artist’s integrity and, consequently, that of the work.1of 2