Rosalía Banet .- Carnicería Love
07/Mar/2008 - 05/Apr/2008
Carnicería Love is the title of ROSALIA BANET’s fourth exhibition at Espacio Minimo in which she continues to touch upon unpleasant themes such as pain and illness, always camouflaged under a false ingenuity.
Carnicería Love is, according to the artist, the place where feelings are cooked. Although at a first glimpse the characters in the works seem to be preparing recipes using humans, in fact it is themselves that they slice, bake and sauté, their own hears that they rip out, and, in short, it is themselves that they cook.
In actual fact, in most cultures there exists a relation between food and feelings, or more precisely between food and love. Mothers try to prepare the best foods for their children;guests are always offered the best recipes, the most succulent dishes; celebrations of any kinds always take place around the table… it is as if we projected part of ourselves on the food that we prepare.
In the same way, the bodies used to prepare the recipes of Carnicería Love represent the exteriorization of the feeling of those who cook them. The intention of the cooks in the paintings, photographs, drawings and video that make up the show is not to harm the bodies; it is simply to show their pain, their suffering, their impotence… The beings that these women cook are the reflection of these feelings. Each recipe is, then, a look inside the person cooking, a way to purge the pain. Though these mutilated, sliced, baked bodies are outside their own they come from within. They are these women’s fears, the monster within that frightens them, and which they put on the table to confront. The monster is part of their own being, so the bodies that they cook are in some way a prolongation of their own. That is which the bodies have no identity, barely any physical features to define them , because thy are merely containers, molds filled with the cook’s entrails.
Paintings – 3 large format works (Cocina para los amantes del arte, Cocina para los amantes de lo ajeno y Cocina para los amantes de Dios)-, drawings – the Recetas series-, photographs – the work that lend it’s title to the show: “Carnicería Love” – , video – Cake de Vísceras – and sculpture – the three disquieting models in the basement – make up the exhibition of trick-works of fake ingenuity that enclose a kind of deconstruction of feelings, a hard and disembodied look at that which is most sinister and painful within ourselves.
ROSALÍA BANET (Madrid, 1972), graduated in Fine Art at Universidad de Vigo y t5aught painting at the department of Fine Art in Altea. She has held individual exhibitions in various Spanish and international galleries, and has partaken iun distinguish contemporary art fairs with Espacio Mínimo such as ARCO, FRIEZE ART FAIR in LONDON, CIGE in Beijing, SHcontemporary en Shanghai, ART CHICAGO, ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH or ARTSSIMA in Turin.
