Eduardo Basualdo
La cabeza de Goliath
Eduardo Basualdo conceives for the basement of Les Abattoirs an original, sculptural and sound installation around the reinterpretation of La cabeza de Goliath (2014), a series originally made for the Palais de Tokyo and acquired in 2017 by Les Abattoirs. A mysterious and disproportionate mass floats in the space.
Coming from the world of theater, marked by psychoanalysis, Eduardo T. Basualdo (born in 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) imagines landscapes or objects that he conceives as an experience of perception for the spectator. He relies on the universal and natural cycle of the world, which he deconstructs to give it a force of its own and autonomous, over which the human seems to have no hold. The recreation of natural forms, the ambiguity of the representation of nature, the physical impact of the work on space are the major issues of his research.
In 2011, Le Silence des sirènes, a notable creation of the 11th Lyon Biennial, consisted of a life-size waterscape that already brought together the major issues of his art, the ambiguity of natural forms and the physical impact of the work on space.
In 2015, the work on the rope and thread about to be torn, or that of liberation from confinement, begun in 2013, was presented in the form of drawings and installation in the Arsenale of the Venice Biennale. That same year, he participated in the Havana Biennial.
For the installation at the Abattoirs, a mysterious and disproportionate mass floats in space. Futuristic and mineral at the same time, this gigantic work keeps the mystery of its origin, arousing fascination and fear. It encourages contemplation as much as doubt, its fragile balance could be easily broken, and it could then fall on the spectator, irreparably subjected to the laws of gravity.