Erika Alfiero
"Resilience" Triptych
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Technique: Infusion, steam watercolor and primer
Support: Fabric
(100 x 80 cm) x 3, = 100 x 243 cm
Resilience is getting ahead in the best way in any situation through flexibility, understanding the context, empathizing, adapting, getting ahead to be well.
In these moments when the world is not in its usual density and has discolored, today I paint it as I feel.
The technical result is the poetic catalysis of drawing, painting and erasing.
My technique, "infusion", arises from that metaphorical image of the veil that clouds and blurs everything, and the current pandemic is an example of this.
The process is to draw using watercolor pencils to later apply steam, and finish with a gesso glaze (white primer) that alludes to the possibility of adding more layers of color or suffering a greater fade.
In this work I talk about my daughter who is a dancer and during the pandemic, for her the possibilities of both training and presentations were canceled, including a scholarship that she won, despite everything she continued to dance, this speaks to us of her ability to be resilient, in the work she dances with a foam mattress that covers her and makes it difficult for her to move, the mattress represents the pandemic and the quarantine. For the creative process, a video was made in which she danced with the mattress on top, still shots were made and from this comes a series which I show in this triptych.
It is a challenge for everyone to move forward in this historic moment despite the confinement and despite the pandemic, including the disease.
These works received the second place prize in the annual contest of the Plastic Association of Monterrey in 2021.
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