Bernardi Roig

Bernardí Roig - Je est a autre

Técnica: Polyester and fluorescent resin.

Biografía del Artista: Bernardí Roig is a Spanish visual artist born in Palma de Mallorca in 1965. He is known for his multidisciplinary work spanning sculpture, photography, video, installation and drawing. His works often have a conceptual approach and his work is characterized by the exploration of themes such as identity, death, memory and perception. Bernardí Roig has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in Spain and abroad, and has participated in international contemporary art biennials. His work can be found in important museum collections and private collections around the world. Among his most notable works are the series "Blackout", "Selfportrait", "Light and Matter" and "The Shadow of the Monster". His sculptures and human figures wrapped in bandages or covered in plastic have become a hallmark of his artistic style.

Je est un autre (The Mirror) is a series of two small figures, one facing the other, with a powerful fluorescent light shining through their legs. One is a distorted reflection of the other, like the image of our own face that the mirror reflects back to us; an image that no longer matches us and only reflects the absence of our true self. There is no longer room for the image to accommodate the eye, and everything rushes towards an inner abyss. Titled Je est un autre, after Rimbaud's famous phrase contained in one of the Letters of the Seer addressed to his friend Paul Demeny, where the poet assumes the loss of identity and the splitting of his identity through denial, this work shows a superposition of reflected identities. Any representation of identity contains the latent experience of its own disfigured image. The face no longer matches the face. We have been definitively evicted from our guarantees. That is what this little piece is about.