Nicolás Leiva. The Seventh Day, 2006. Installation at San Giuseppe church.
On the tile floor of the church of San Giuseppe, in Faenza, Italy, a few meters in front of the altarpiece, Nicolás Leiva created El Séptimo Día, an installation that expands the correspondence between the material and the creation of the world. The works included in the installation are unique originals and were on exhibit at the church in the Palacio de Exposiciones from June 2nd to August 31st, 2006. When Leiva was invited to this space reserved for special projects, he thought of ceramics—which involves a process based on earth, water, and fire—as related to the six days of the creation and the day of rest, the seventh day, when God contemplates what he has wrought. In a primeval world, it was on Earth that God made his creation.
