Luis Garcia-Nerey - "Home of the Self"September 7 - October 3, 2007
"What are the components of Being?"
"Can we truly achieve existential authenticity without interaction?"
"Does the Self only exist because of the Other?"
"My study of these questions is the core base of what defines my work. The intentions are for the viewer to give the pieces life only for the span of their reflexive interaction. This necessary interaction for my works to come alive is compatible to the same interaction necessary for all living things to define each other. However complex or simple a subject may be, it still requires the exchange with the Other so as to define its existence. Without this dialog it could be argued that the subject ceases to exist."
"The works also question the ideas of memory and existence. Do the personae survive only inasmuch as they stay in the memory of the viewer? My approach: a philosophical probe into the truth of existence. The goal: to involve the viewer in defining the Self of each subject."
- Luis Garcia-Nerey -
image: "i am", painting mixed media on panel, 60" x 54", 2007
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