Joya: AiR / Ivan Clemente / ESP

Project S

“S, from Shibari, S -hug- its meaning in Japanese. S, of infinite curve, of a Moebius band that returns on itself so that there is no beginning or end, infinite knot, Srivatsa. S that emerges from the shadow, from where there is no beyond.

The rope as a border, border between the body and outer space. Border that oppresses but protects. After the border, nothingness, emptiness. For Nietzsche the human being is a rope between the animal and the transhuman, a rope over an abyss.

In Los Gázquez, at Joya-Air, I have developed this land art project where the forest become a theater of ephemeral installations. I have been tying trees, rocks, deeply immersed in the “barranco”, a microcosmos in itself, scenary of a battle between water, sand, stones, and branches of trees, where the wind whistles as a wolf at night. Here the rope, acts as a metaphor of the work done trying to prevent erosion, to preserve this place”.

Ivan Clemente

Ivan Clemente explores the reality that surrounds him, its materialization, its duality, the ambivalent and yes, the beautiful. Escaping from the Universe of the obvious is not easy, but he intensely tries. The complex, the dark, the brilliant, the hidden, the unknown, the plastic, the feminine, the abstract, captivates him, and keeps him, to some extent, prisoner. He feels comfortable working with the hybrid, with the juxtaposition of disciplines, in the world of thought, of ideas, of the conceptual process that leads to an idea, which in the end will be an image, or not. That mental process, for him, is an indissoluble part of the artistic fact.

Simon Beckmann21 October 2020