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Drowned but alive,
2024
Kalee Guauta
Painting : acrylic
130 x 100 x 3 cm 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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130 x 100 x 3 cm 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: Colombia
There are days when I can't cope with myself, when I find it hard to lift my head, hard to love myself, hard to stay, and I feel like I'm dying inside, like something in me is fading away. It's as if I'm sinking into an invisible sea, where no one can see that I'm gasping for air, and yet... I'm still here, still loving, still feeling, still caring for what matters to me.
There are days when I look in the mirror and don't recognize myself. I wonder when I started sinking without making a sound, but then I see those I love laughing, dancing, breathing without fear, and I tell myself: this is worth everything. Maybe I don't feel well, maybe I don't have energy, maybe I can't find a way out, maybe I can't even find the solution I'm always looking for, but they... they still shine. And that, in the midst of everything, has the magic to sustain me.
It's distressing, I can't deny it, but even from there, from that cold place, I strive for those I love to have a better life. I force myself to be a little sunshine for them, a little air, a little light, and yes, there is something painful in that, but there is also something deeply human because in that gesture of giving there is a lot of healing.
That's why a whisper installs itself in my head, repeating to me, “What if I stay here? What if I manage to keep giving even though I'm emptying myself? What if I manage to be a support and a companion?" And with that, perhaps I hold on to the hope that one day the love I give without measure will return to me, not from outside, but from within, not from someone else, but from me to me. I know that day will come, I know it will come without warning, and on that day I will also find myself again, I will embrace myself again, and I will look at my wounds a little, and I will see that I have healed, and I will thank myself in front of that same mirror that tortures me today, and I will smile and say, “I love you for letting it all go."
I'm drowning, but I'm alive, and sometimes that's enough.
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Independent artist • Colombia
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A self-taught artist who began her practice in 2008, developing a personal visual language about emotion and memory. In 2015, she incorporated the study of cross-modality as a conceptual axis, exploring the correspondences between the senses and the possibility of generating an expanded sensory experience between the work, the viewer, and various arts such as music, gastronomy, and performance.
In 2018, he began a series of self-managed projects that marked a turning point in his artistic practice, focusing his attention on mental health as the conceptual and vital axis of his work to date.
His work has been presented in exhibition spaces, galleries, embassies, and international fairs in Argentina, Italy, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom. Recent solo exhibitions include I'm Not Alone (Melaká Art Gallery, Bogotá, 2024); Depression Anatomy (Firma de Arte, Bogotá, 2022); Pleasure Synesthesia (Casa 73-22, Bogotá, 2021); Inside My Mind (Melaká Art Gallery, Bogotá, 2019); and Animal Soul (Galería Casa Valhalla, Bogotá, 2017).
In 2019, he published his first literary work, Inside My Mind, a project that expands his research on mental, emotional, and perceptual processes from an intimate and symbolic perspective, developed during 2018.
His participation in group exhibitions includes Aqua Art Miami (USA), Premio Arte Anima Latina (Rome); Salón de Arte Figurativo y Representacional (Bogotá); Arte en la Red, Casa de América (Madrid); Passepartout, Consulate of Colombia (Paris); Bienal Internacional de Suba (Bogotá); Ilustres, Espacio Independiente; Aldente 14 (Buenos Aires); Redibujando Bogotá; Imagen y Palabra, Universidad Los Libertadores; Salón de Ilustración, Club El Nogal; Quinestecia, Teatro R101; and Expoink, Casa Cartel Urbano.
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Colombian artists
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