VIEWING ROOM "NEST"

"Nest"

About dystopian worlds and the visual language that we begin to evoke through films even when we are ignorant or illiterate.

It was inevitable that George Miller would not inspire my limited imagination as a lover of his Mad Max saga, and a romantic of those post-apocalyptic worlds that put man in total survival forced by a destroyed era.

The distance narrates a wide desolate landscape in its own nature.

We do not know the time, it could be dusk or a new dawn, perhaps it is midday, clouded by the swirling dust that foretells a rain of dirt in that wasteland.

The survivor is no longer just the man, but is also a woman, twin, double or cloned showing the two sides of herself.

We read stereotypes as we were taught to look at black and white.

Can we extract from such a magnificent cinematographic work, a piece that breathes on its own?

This is one of my attempts to pay homage and at the same time humbly try to create a new idea by being myself in my need to convey the concept of looking inside ourselves using a certain scenario to generate emotions and feelings through a simple painting.

A nest that symbolizes losing and not having hope so that it allows us to activate the self of survival.

–Edgar Mendoza