Original artwork description:

64x84 cm | Filler, oak frame

Esperanto means "the one who hopes". The word MALESPERO is despair in Esperanto. Something is reassuring about expressing one's hopelessness in the language of hope. If you don't have a language to name the darkest, you will never find the light.

Language is ideology. There is a constant power struggle over the use of language, about its limitations and possibilities. Esperanto originates from a dream to open the boundaries between people, and that language can be the key to this. We should be cautious about how the language we use shapes our understanding of reality and what powers want to exploit this.

Even if the human subject is forever alienated from its subconscious, from the body, and from the environment, it can not exist without the desire to belong, which constantly drives it to challenge its own limitations. This is the matrix of love. The subject's existence rests on faith that there is something outside itself and hope that deliverance is possible. Although language is the instrument that established the self-conscious mind by separating it from the rest of the world, it is also the most essential tool for uniting the separate parts that constitute our reality.

Materials used:

Filler (coarse and fine) in oak frame

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