MONUMENTAL, CALLAO PERU / 2020
Plastic boxes support an arch, helium balloons with the image of the earth are attached to it, on one side, a plastic chair. The caretaker of the worlds is absent, it would be difficult for him to improvise a desk, but perhaps he did not want this assignment, he was not prepared. Who is he really? The exhibition What happened to the baby by Juan Carlos Guerrerosantos is made up of a selection of works made from modified toys and disposable objects that symbolize the transition from childhood to adulthood.
Conceptualized over five months, the works on display in the exhibition transform objects of childhood imagination to create allegories of adult life: a horse-shaped seesaw now has wheels to allow unlimited mobility; a game of Twister loses its logic by removing its multicolored circles from their place; an Ace's future is put on hold by leaning on a piece of ice to melt; four hippos try unsuccessfully to catch a pile of coins with their jaws. The work of Guerrerosantos shows the uncertainty of growing up, but at the same time, with a series of demands of the contemporary capitalist world that cannot be escaped.
Faced with this loss of innocence, the individual is forced to follow this game to survive, thus betraying his childhood principles on many occasions. Caged in a white cube space, some of the objects are shaped like animals. These friendly-looking species are at all times at the service of human beings, in their plasticized version for the enjoyment of children, and in their carnal reality, exploited for food and shelter. Perhaps these artifacts always served a purpose, an early education in the control and domestication of the environment. However, no one warned us that there are no instructions for life.
-Fabiola Talavera (2020)
Untilted (All The Wild Horses), 2020
Ruin Bowling, 2020
Untilted, 2020