"Real Art" Statement

We will understand our environment, what surrounds us, as tools for our work. Objects, people, and our relationships with them will all be valid. Our feelings, too. Only by using personal content can we work from it to detach ourselves and create narratives. Your relationship with your mother will be understood as exploring the maternal relationship; it will never be faithful or direct to the real situation. There will be nothing real in the narrative, despite the relationship being real. Your partner will be understood as discussing romantic relationships; your partner will never be mentioned. The real content will not be revealed, so that the viewer can be surprised if they wish. From the outset, any connection to the material used will be severed, resulting in a predictable failure from the very beginning. The person involved must understand that the narrative is not about them. If the subject is a person, they will be consulted, if possible, to determine if they understand and consent. As authors of the work, we must have personal involvement with the content so that we are affected differently than the viewer, and in no case will the experience be the same; otherwise, we would have failed. Direct relationships, such as familial ones, will be a resource for making these relationships explicit, whatever our personal circumstances may be. If we are working with people, their life status, whether living or deceased, will be irrelevant. The discourse and our personal situation can coincide. We will use real content to talk about our concerns that affect us, but this does not mean that we are affected by the concerns themselves. It will not have a formal identity structure, and can draw on whatever elements the author deems appropriate. The main motivation is to create a duality of direct engagement with the viewer and the author, so that both are affected in different ways. For this reason, the more real the relationship with the subject matter, the greater the impact on the author, without the viewer identifying with it. To talk about what concerns us, we must use our reality to create a dichotomy between ourselves and the discourse itself. All proposals that fulfill this premise will be valid.