Apex

Apex is a series of 9 paintings in which Bernardo Falconi explores the impossibility of signifying human sexuality. The artist tries to show the longing for de-individuation in the affections implicit in the sexual relationship and, in turn, the yearning to return to the maternal-female body as a space "oceanic". This concept treated in his paintings was also treated in Mahana No Atua (the day of God) by Paul Gauguin, a painting in which the different stages of (sexual) maturation and individuation of the human being are represented. The plane in the painting where adulthood activities are happening is connected ─through the goddess Hina─ with the pre-subjective space of uterine childhood, birth, and subsequent adolescence. Then, mature sexuality, its repression and uninhibited infantile and pre-subjective sexuality are intertwined through the divinity of the goddess Hina, to whom offerings and sacrifices are offered.

In Apex, the sacred and the sexual are also interconnected, since sacrificial elements such as menstrual blood or the birth of a baby are poured and deposited directly on the land that flourishes fertile; the faces of two individuals kissing become one and, the texture of the skin of the protagonists of these paintings is portrayed as porous, with broken lines that do not completely outline the contour of the figure. Apex takes nature as the setting and engine of universal love, enhancer of a unity that questions the impenetrability of the corporeal surface and ego integrity.

Andrés Marcial Coba.

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