In this magnificent gallery, Soledad Córdoba presents the second part of her Trilogy of the Soul: Purification, where her female body, the central element of her entire work, merges with the desert as an animated organism, as an irreducible region to explore different states of the soul (the genesis of her poetic visions), in which the beautiful and the sublime, as Eugenio Trías would say, as a unique category, would manifest as “divine presence, incarnation, revelation of the infinite in the finite.” Soledad Córdoba’s trilogy thus appears to reveal the Romantic feeling of the sublime, where, following the aforementioned philosopher, “the infinite enters us, into our amphibious nature of carnal spirits.” The immeasurable, the abyssal desert, is contemplated and inhabited by an ambivalent feeling of anguish and joy. The awareness of nature’s superiority leads the artist to question the primordial enigmas, the states of the soul already explored in Devastation and Resistance, the seed of this Trilogy of the Soul. In these seminal projects, the works act as tests of a transformation born from a desolating experience, and at the same time function as a means of finding a path to healing (Devastation) or are “acts of force,” based on the question of whether to resist is to exist (Resistance). The visitor, therefore, will be able to traverse the different states through photographs, videos, installations, and drawings, as a universal expression of the kaleidoscopic soul, accompanying the artist’s own process of transformation. On this journey towards immensity, towards herself, Soledad chooses the desert as a fitting place for revelation, for transcendence. She herself describes it as a mystical path, an initiatory journey, or the mysterious path described by Novalis, “which goes inward; inside us, where eternity resides with its worlds, the past and the future.” In the entirety of her poetic-performative visions, symbols gravitate that form her personal mythology: the stone, the ropes, the black veil, the golden thread, or the black rose. Elements of her spiritual exploration that connect with the ineffable and the intangible, inviting us to penetrate the abysses of the unconscious, of the great revelations, but also, as José Jiménez pointed out, in her conscious process of personal overcoming: “To drag the stones of existence, to circle around them, until one manages to dominate them, converting them into a ladder for elevation.” From above, transcended, Soledad Córdoba’s images provoke a shudder and truth. They obey an imperative demand of her being, having nothing to do with self-indulgence. They are the universal expression of the soul; of the wandering, warrior, sorceress woman; of the transcended, purified, reborn woman.
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