Nudo, a 6 m high structure, was created from a series of plywood boards, cut to shape and forming lines by shadows. The words on it are the result of automatic writing while painting live in front of the audience.
Created by my alter ego Cristina Reyes, following the creation of Eating Stories the previous year, Nudo was created for the exhibition Industry 02, in the massive Shunt Vaults.
Nudo unleashes stories that have never been told, remaining hidden or forgotten:
She was scared of her own voice, so instead of speaking, she decided to hide her tales in her arms. Her limbs became so heavy from carrying stories, that she grew further arms, to hold the accumulating memories. Overfilled by repressed content, her limbs became entangled.
This knot of arms swelled up, so the rest of her body disappeared. The extremities kept growing, becoming a giant creature in constant movement, overflown by emotion and living in darkness.
