“Beyond any forbidden zone, there is a mirror for our sad transparency.” — Alejandra Pizarnik, Tree of Diana (1961)
Devastation, Soledad Córdoba’s new project, is undoubtedly her most mature series. With courage, she delves into the process of emotional pain that follows a biographical rupture, when it arrives suddenly and without room for correction. The “after” that follows this crack in the heart is the starting point of a journey of healing, accompanied by her artistic process.
The series consists of photographs, videos, an installation, and a set of drawings (a technique she introduces to the public for the first time in her career); it is completed with a numbered artist’s book in which, beyond time, Soledad Córdoba engages in a dialogue with poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972), who will ultimately lend her words to Soledad’s emotions.
“I tried so hard to learn to read in my tears…” — Alejandra Pizarnik
These pieces are the witnesses of the self-knowledge embarked upon by the artist, and the evidence of the transformation from which she ultimately emerges, radiant, after passing through desolation and silence.
While continuing the evocative, dreamlike, and visionary imagery of her previous photographic series, in Devastation we observe a greater rawness, a shift in state, a tone of deep authenticity, reinforced by the chosen working process, which has done away with the studio and taken the filming to ruins and inhospitable beaches, to real abandoned landscapes, expressive of the emotional states that Soledad has traversed.
