David Catá

David Catá - O2 foundations

Técnica: Photograph on barited paper

Biografía del Artista: David Catá's work establishes a game between personal memory and the creative act. A temporal act that is recorded through photography, video, painting and even sculpture. The evocative power of personal objects and the photographs in his family album serve as inspiration. Through them he reflects on time, memory and the way of delaying the process of forgetting, using ephemeral elements such as ice, thread, dandelions, salt... Sometimes it is his own body that becomes the artistic support of his environment and his experiences. The stitches and fissures made on his skin are intended to be a metaphor for the indissoluble symbiosis between the passage of time and forgetting. His work aspires to the conservation of time passed by means of memorial, corporal, photographic, videographic traces... It is a work that goes beyond an aesthetic search. Her performance videos are a cathartic exercise, in which she confronts the oblivion and sadness that the loss of a loved one leaves us with, “making the suffering flesh” and she physically detaches herself from it once and for all. The ephemeral nature of life, the physical and immaterial mark, the pain… are closely linked to her work. “All the people we meet mark us in some way. Their image is projected onto us, reminding us of where we come from. Their lives become part of ours. Each stitch on my skin represents them, physical pain is not a border, it unites us more, thinking that my hand has been marked in an act of affection; thinking that at one time my hand touched their hand.”

The evocative power of personal objects and photographs from her family album serve as inspiration. Through them she reflects on time, memory and the way to prolong the process of forgetting, using ephemeral elements such as ashes, thread, dandelions, etc. to create metaphors. Sometimes her own body becomes the artistic support of her surroundings and experiences. The stitches and fissures made on her skin are a metaphor for the indissoluble symbiosis between the passage of time and oblivion. A work that aspires to preserve the time passed by means of a memorial, corporal, photographic imprint.