LAURA MESA
TENERIFE, 1975
In a historical moment that forces us to redefine our relationship with the real and its representation, my work focuses on a theoretical-formal research that reflects on this need. From different starting points, which address different categorizations about the fiction of the real, I work on the tension generated between both concepts.
For this I use drawing, which I consider the most elemental, austere and, in a way, honest plastic expression. I propose a re-reading of its processes and materials in parallel to a reflection based on Deleuze, Heidegger or Danto, to derive, as a result, in the production of works formally articulated around the density of graphite and India ink. With these theoretical and physical materials I build solid drawings that seek to tension -and question- the reality of the drawing itself and, therefore, the drawing of reality itself.