Dios Abatido - 2024 from "Contil"
In the morning of February 18, 2014, a massive five alarm fire ripped through the home and studio of artist FDLM. The loss was total, and the artist escaped the flames with only the clothes on his back. The building was gutted and demolished and in just a few days there was no trace of an entire body of work.
10 years later, the artist has reopened the archive of what he had documented digitally until that point, and is creating a new series of works.
- is the black greasy and powdery residue left on remaining surfaces after a fire, that’s very difficult to clean and remove. The artist saw a metaphor between the substance and the way memory and lost work remained, as an unexplainable urge to look back. Perhaps he wasn't looking back, but the work had remained with him as Soot, needing to be resolved.
"Contil": a Nicaraguan word for "Soot", is a hybrid of digital collage and painting, consisting of art, photography, and art journal pages with poetry, and prose drafts. The work is composed in contexts aimed to process loss, address the challenges and commonalities of contemporary life, and honor life, and the resilience of the human condition and the creative spirit.
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Digital print of original painting by FdlM
Dimensions: 13" x 19"
Image dimensions: 12.5" x 16"
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Printed with high quality fade resistant inkjet dye inks to capture vibrant colors.
Printed on acid free archival matte high-resolution paper.
Each is an open edition print, direct from the art studio and signed by the artist.
This work will ship rolled in a tube.