Selva
ongoing project presented at
Artissima 2016
Present Future section
with P420

“Selva” is an ongoing project in which I make new paintings following the dreams of a curator named Rob about the murals Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias made in 1939 in San Francisco, California; all of these dreams as registered and transmitted by Rob’s girlfriend Selva. We are walking together in Paris. I show you my open hand and the things I had inside my pocket (2016), is the first of these dreams and the first painting of the series.

Installation view, ph: Claire Dorn
We are walking together in Paris. I show you my open hand and the things I had inside my pocket, 2016, oil on wood, 25cmx30cm, ph: Claire Dorn
Fish dancing on top of a building, 2016, oil on wood, 25cmx30cm, ph: Claire Dorn
A dog-shaped vessel from Colima just been extracted out of the earth is having a dream about the end of the world, 2016, oil on wood, 25cmx30cm, ph: Claire Dorn
Things were swimming in a poster I saw on my way to work in the morning, 2016, oil on wood, 25cmx30cm, ph: Claire Dorn
We’ve seen a bird printed on a shell but we don’t know where, 2016, oil on wood, 25cmx30cm, ph: Claire Dorn
The feet of the man sunk in the sand leaving a shapeless print, as if it would be the paw of an animal, 2016, oil on wood, 25cmx30cm, ph: Claire Dorn
A bird lands on our table and plays with the patterns on the wood, like jumping from one place to another on a map,2016, oil on wood, 25cmx30cm, ph: Claire Dorn