Abstract of Review text ‘'The coil of many births: (auto-bestiary)’ 

by Arturo Desimone. 

Arubian - Argentinian writer and visual artist.

Buenos Aires 2021

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'One sculpture conjures to mind an adult human female form trapped in the bloblike mass of a placenta, much as a calf just emerged from a mother-cow still wears the lining, the slime of its mother, of the feminine which appals and fascinates, terrifies and comforts by way of the life-giving magical potency.

 

The bodies, and limbs struggling to escape a translucent, flowing wall– part nocturnal fairy-mist, part placental– recalls a line from a famous Andean folklore verse “El gusano escapa su prisión de seda” “The worm escapes its prison of silk” While admiring the metamorphosis of the butterfly in affectionate terms, we often forget what the pre-Columbian culture knew without having the microscope: that the metamorphosis, within the chrysalis involves violent and dramatic forces, as acids melt down and destroy the body of a caterpillar before its recomposition'.

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