INSTALLATIONS
The installations make it possible to work three-dimensionally and encourage interaction with the viewer.
HANG TIME
This installation is based on the observation of the protective nets formed by gabions that protect against rock falls in mountainous areas. From these elements I develop a reflection on the passage of time. To do this, I create a piece with nine gabions, one of which lies on the ground. Inside each of these nine pieces float aluminium and brass utensils, timeless objects that defy the law of gravity, frozen in time.
Excerpt from a text by the critic Joan Gil, member of the International Association of Art Critics. Catalogue of the exhibition 6 artistes, 6 conceptes (6 artists, 6 concepts), d’Art d’Andorra workshops:
“It is a set up full of silences, memories and recollections. A work that values presence and absence, the full and the empty, representation and allusion , and in short, life and death. A bipolar confrontation between the known and the unknown, between apparent certainties and enigmatic appearances to create this illusory condition, which is what the artist wants to transmit with her search for the absolute.
The dominant sensation that invades her is that of the disappearance of an unrepeatable world that escapes the gaze. For this reason, she avoids noise in order to stop time and suspend it in an eternal silence, just as in a dream it is stillness, the essential moment of expression.
For all this, Aurea Bellera’s work stands as a moving inventory that preserves the memory of life. Like Marcel Proust, she interprets, deciphers and captures those fortuitous moments, loaded with the past, to seek the truth they contain in a need to capture lost time. It is in this sense that she has the need to endow everything profane with a sacred meaning, to introduce transcendence into the everyday and to offer a medium for meditation on the meaning of life.”
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LE JARDIN FÊLÉ
Mutant flowers made of plastic, light bulbs –the unmistakable symbol of ideas,– grow in an artificial garden, a kind of greenhouse. Fragility and artifice are combined to create a hypnotic atmosphere.
The garden is French-style, orderly and symmetrical, all the elements combine in a similar way except the central bell: it is the only one that is broken. The installation takes its name from this particular piece, in which the flower-bulb breaks through the apparently cracked glass. It exemplifies the power of creative ideas by pushing their limits. At the foot of the bell, tiny, two workers pick up the damage caused by this sudden appearance. Redimensioned by this change of scale, not perceptible at first sight in the overall view, the bells function as architecture.
Art is artifice above all, this is one of my premises: for this reason the fissure is a simulation, the flowers are made of plastic. Working with waste, recycled material, material that can be bought in any shop, also goes in the same direction.
From the oneiric character of the work, accentuated by the use of metaphor, I underline the idea that art is a dream within a dream, life, and I reflect on how these two elements, art and life, nourish each other. This is the origin of the artist’s book, a sort of compilation of the different influences that come together in the genealogy of this work: from old photographs taken from the family chest, to videoframes from the last chapter of the film Andrei Rubliev by the director Andrei Tarkovski, as well as to my own reflections.
Lastly, the communicative aspect, implicit in every creative act, materialises in the structure of the installation itself: the public feels invited to wander through the greenhouse garden, in a visual, sensory experience, unimpeded, since the glass not only hides nothing but reflects, and therefore amplifies. So the viewers, with their movement, also become part of the work. The passers-by participate in it, they pass and this very concept of passing is what defines in itself the very condition of the aesthetic experience.
Both installations were the product of two consecutive grants from the Art Workshops of the Ministry of Culture of the Principality of Andorra.
Le jardin fêlé resulted in a special edition of stamps.
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