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25 hand-made carvings on wooden boards. Each one painted with black engraving ink. 59,4 x 44 cm. each one. Complete artwork, 302 x 215 cm.
25 woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper. 302 x 215 cm.
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)
The Displaced Hive, 2022. (Detail, 59,4 x 44 cm.)

A woman and a child walk behind leaves of the Ginkgo Biloba tree.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.

Inside Mount Everest, the first man to reach the moon in 1969 in the Apollo 11 spacecraft appears, along with his footprints and a large tree.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
Inside Mount Everest, the first man to reach the moon in 1969 in the Apollo 11 spacecraft appears, along with his footprints and a large tree.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
Two people rest inside a burning shelter while Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity aircraft flies above them, recalling its first crewed spaceflight in 2021.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
A woman with a child in her arms crosses a somber landscape where several corpses appear.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
The poem Venice is Empty 2019 by T. Millán, is inserted into a stone wall.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
Above Mount Everest, a crowd helps two people transition to outer space. Both wear protective helmets shaped like globes.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
A land tortoise flies over Mount Everest. The image is inspired by a drawing by artist Melchior Lorck (1555) where a land tortoise flies over the Venetian lagoon.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.

A land tortoise flies over Mount Everest. The image is inspired by a drawing by artist Melchior Lorck (1555) where a land tortoise flies over the Venetian lagoon.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.

A man with a baby in his arms crosses Mount Everest. As he passes, a dead woman is being
devoured by a vulture while another waits its turn. Impassively, a sea turtle flies over the scene.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
A man and two children walk behind intertwined thistle leaves.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
Two climbers make their way through the vegetation.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
A helpless man walks over the sea with his two daughters in his arms. The girls wear helmets shaped like globes. Next to them, a rocket from Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin is launched.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
Mount Everest.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
The footprint of the first man on the moon is shown on an unknown landscape.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
Two climbers are shown immersed in a landscape.
Woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper, 48 x 65,4 cm.
A boy with a backpack, an immigrant, stands with his back to the edge of a cloud, looking at the starry space where a Blue Origin space tourism rocket, owned by magnate Jeff Bezos, flies. Below are elements he has encountered along his journey: thistle branches and other plants, birds, winged creatures, and a large land tortoise. A man crouching on the left constructs and arranges the scene. This composition references two important paintings, The Great Metaphysician (1945) by Giorgio De Chirico and Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818) by Caspar David Friedrich.

9 woodcuts printed on Japanese Okawara paper. 181 x 129 cm.

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THE DISPLACED HIVE

The Displaced Hive is an altarpiece of 25 pieces carved in wood and stamped on paper that I started during a three-month stay in Weimar (Germany) in the summer of 2021. This project deals with the aspirational need of man in his search for new ends and its overcrowding, and presents three of the ways in which this over-crowding occurs today; the mass tourism of climbers on Mount Everest, which in 2019 came to form a traffic jam at the summit, as Subin Takuri immortalized in his photographs; the new space race between private companies of great tycoons, transporting tourists to outer space for the first time in history, and; the waves of immigrants, who risk their lives trying to reach borders that are as desirable as they are inaccessible.

The chosen form, as an altarpiece of narrative scenes, provides a link with other traditional human escape routes through religion and allows us to develop a mythological iconography around the three chosen themes.

Autora

Clara Carvajal

Fecha

2022

Previous POR UNHA BIOLOXÍA DA IMAXE, 2021.<br>Galician Center of Contemporary Art CGAC. <br>Santiago de Compostela. Next THE HUMAN’S SOPHISTRY, 2022.<br>VIII Biennial of Contemporary Art, ONCE Foundation.<br> Madrid.
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