VIEWING ROOM "MUTANT"

"Mutant"

Mutant is a painting that can easily be confused with a gore theme, but this is just an excuse to provoke a first impression. It is surrounded by an atmosphere to give a certain symbolic meaning.

It is framed as a highly empowered character, a term closely related to feminism and its ongoing sociocultural reflection.

The character does not seek approval of what she considers her consistency, she carries as a banner the concept and the warning of being protected, the weapon itself seems to be herself, a chainsaw that provides her intentions in her purposes or in her actions.

A model was needed that showed physical strength and firmness of face, that concealed her nakedness with transparencies without complexes or erotic pretensions.

This woman in that first information is presented powerful with her artifact, half-naked to tell us that perhaps she is not what she seems.

Later she takes you to her gaze, which in reality when you observe it, does not threaten you. She wants you to go inside her like the other women in my paintings.

Silence can provide answers to the concerns of a character who wants to cut off what she no longer needs from herself, and which prevents her from moving on to the next stage of growth.

More than an empowerment that wants to fight for something, it's actually having the conviction that to continue evolving, you must leave something behind and sacrifice it.

Are the conceptual nature and psychological and feminine personality of Mutant enough to compete with the powerful symbol of that powerful chainsaw?

The painting belongs to the collection of the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM).

–Edgar Mendoza