Niō ART by MRS DOMINGUEZ PALACIOS from SPAIN


27 SEMANA DE CINE FANTÁSTICO Y DE TERROR
“JAPANESE HORROR STORY. Off Festival Cine Fantástico y de Terror de San Sebastián” 

“JAPANESE HORROR STORY. Off Horror and Fantasy Film Festival from San Sebastián"

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ORGANIZER:

Art Toy Gama Collective in Spain (through Art Toy Maison www.behance.net/arttoymaison )  


Photo by: LUIS




Liquid Stage     
Polymer clay hand painted and varnished. 
Numbering: 1/1 
Dimensions:
 SCULPTURE SET – 12 x 13.5 x 25 cm. Small Liquid sitting - 12 x 13.5 x 14.5 cm. 
Head mangled Niō - 3.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm. 
2016 
Packaging pine wood and polyurethane foam fireproof.   





Solid Stage: Niō  
Oil on board 30 x 30 cm. 2016   



Niō / Guardian:

According to Japanese tradition, the Niō guard the entrance to Buddhist temples in Japan and Korea. As manifestations of the bodhisattva Vajrapani protective deity it is said that Buddha accompanied on his trip. 

When we speak about "liquid stage" we are referring to the object stage of "the thing". Liquid Stage represents all the mutable aspects of the thing, as thinghood same. Liquid in the relationship established with the Other, being another mutilated head that lies in front of him (NIŌ), we talk about two stages. In the first one, Liquid figure becomes "liquid stage", the unstable, the darkness, the antihero; in the second one, Solid represents a structure or "solid stage", the light, the truth, the hero.

Our proposal is to give life to the tension that occurs between opposites. A permanent game between otherness, between me and my Other. In this case, maximize the negative response of the meeting.

In this sense, the spanish writer and philosopher Pedro Lain Entralgo affirm that “…el otro puede serme todo, desde lo más grato hasta lo más ingrato, desde mi amigo hasta mi asesino1” (Lain Entralgo, 1968: 100).

Throught this artwork, we present two opposing realities, we experience with identity and "apparent". The idea presented in this work is starring by antihero, the terror of a contained force: the Other is myself, now.


Curator: Fran Picazo 

WIP - WORKING PROGRESS