RINAT IZHAK
 

 

p r o j e c t

SERES INVISIBLES

creation, management and curator

2015

 

 

 

What we hear of war is always in the form of figures. Over and over, 3460 dead, 4223 missing… The press reports the ever-rising numbers as if it were awarding prizes in a lottery.

 

The individual is forgotten.

 

But behind every number is a person who once had a life, a family, people that loved them and that they loved, with whom they will never see their dreams come true. In each number is hidden an invisible person, trapped inside a figure.

 

In this exhibition I want to give life to the essence of every one of these anonymous people.

 

The main element chosen for this series is the evocative nature of washing hung out to dry. Who hasn´t felt the presence of their loved ones, impregnating every fibre of the material with their scent?

 

“Seres Invisibles” (¨Invisible Beings¨) began its life in Seville, in August 2014, after my plane tickets to Israel – where my family lives – were cancelled because of the terrible war which started at that moment.

 

Alongside these works the series ¨Guerra¨  (¨War¨) is presented for the first time, created in 2006 in my studio in Barcelona. That year I was commissioned to create a series of large format paintings for the set design of a play by Julia Bel, poetry about the Spanish Civil War. Sadly, while working on the project, the war with Lebanon started in my country of origin. Suddenly the newspapers were full of the same landscapes of horror and destruction as then.

 

I painted what I felt. This is how these paintings came to be.

 

All wars are, in the end, their own worlds. Small islands of disconnection, disaster and forgetting in this enormous world. Fertile oases amidst figures of death and abandonment. Spaces where invisible people live, who pulsate inside us, where our hearts are intertwined.