The series revisits the night her father passed away from asphyxia due to lung cancer. Ana sought air and breathing to calm her mourning. Her breathing cycles were timed in different modes, rhythms, and speeds, which turned into strokes.
Without air and without anima. Suffocation presents itself in many forms, from cities, pollution, or work overload. We hyperventilate from the fear of violence and insecurity, holding air in our chest under precarious conditions, aggressions, and exploitation.
Breathing to animate the stroke. Drawing without breath, tracing the breath—whether in apnea or through intense breathing exercises. The indiscipline of senses, through physical conditioning of suspension, deprivation of air, asphyxia, hyperventilation, and other breathing techniques, creates an intensification and emergence of inner images transcribed onto paper surfaces and spills onto the gallery walls.
Forgetting the air to reveal the invisible landscape of the body’s limits in an altered state of consciousness. Lines that follow the movement of thought and extend the pulsing vital energy.
Between wandering and the dreamlike, drawing builds the space traveled by the consciousness’s time, the territory of what is nomadic within us.
Breathing to return spirit to the image.
Without air and without anima. Suffocation presents itself in many forms, from cities, pollution, or work overload. We hyperventilate from the fear of violence and insecurity, holding air in our chest under precarious conditions, aggressions, and exploitation.
Breathing to animate the stroke. Drawing without breath, tracing the breath—whether in apnea or through intense breathing exercises. The indiscipline of senses, through physical conditioning of suspension, deprivation of air, asphyxia, hyperventilation, and other breathing techniques, creates an intensification and emergence of inner images transcribed onto paper surfaces and spills onto the gallery walls.
Forgetting the air to reveal the invisible landscape of the body’s limits in an altered state of consciousness. Lines that follow the movement of thought and extend the pulsing vital energy.
Between wandering and the dreamlike, drawing builds the space traveled by the consciousness’s time, the territory of what is nomadic within us.
Breathing to return spirit to the image.