Carmen Segovia c/o 2AGENTEN begeistert uns gerade mit einer XL Fenster Installation an der spanischen Botschaft in Washington, DC. Die spanische Illustratorin erkundet in ihrer Arbeit die Idee der Rückkehr in die Außenwelt, sie spielt mit Innen und Außen, sowie mit anderen Dualitäten, die ein Teil von ihr sind : Nostalgie & Sehnsucht, Einsamkeit & Geselligkeit, Stadt & Natur, Realität & Imagination, Sinnlich & Mental, Freiheit & Enge …
“I wondered what outside meant for me. Since March 2020, the value of the outside vs the inside had changed. A door was no longer the only thing separating my house from the street. Now, there was something else, something huge, impassable and hard to assimilate; something that was happening to all of us at the same time, both in my street and on the other side of the world. Coming out of lockdown, stepping out of the house, breaking out of the bubble, getting out of ourselves … It is proving to be a shifting path that flows, blends, and becomes contaminated, with others and with time.
To create these illustrations, I wanted to play with this strange new link between the inside and the outside, as well as with other dualities that are a part of me when reflecting on how I have lived and still live this process: nostalgia & longing, solitude & companionship, city & nature, reality & imagination, sensuality & rationality, freedom & confinement…
The windows of a facade may be an uncommon medium for an illustrator, but they are not all that different from vignettes or the pages of a book. In this case, however, passersby will be the audience. I wanted to make use of the sequentiality offered by these five windows to follow a character through five scenes that briefly tell the story of their return to the outside world. Waving hair and curtains. The domestic in the wild and the domesticated wilderness. Doors in the field that open and call. To feel the body in other dreamed spaces. Fear and desire. The desire to fly…”
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