Tantra Song.

Taking as a reference the unusual collection of 17th-century Tantric paintings compiled by the French poet Franck André Jamme, the images, which represent four spaces of an ancient Hindu palace, are intervened with different “yantras” or Tantric instruments that were historically used to facilitate concentration. These were mostly represented by minimalist geometric figures that were deeply symbolic, but their main purpose was to serve as “drishtis” or focal points where the gaze could rest and be redirected inward. According to these abstract and anonymous paintings, whose essence managed to suppress any definition of ego, the art was purely functional, as it was merely a means to achieve higher channels of consciousness and reach meditation.

Through these images of a distant space that endures only in memory, the aim is to revive the materiality of the experience and return to the present moment, questioning whether the tangible architectural space and the yantra instrument play an important role in a contemplative process that actually takes place within us.

The installation proposes the assembly of the 4 photographs resembling 4 walls which will imminently create a limited and contained central space, revealing the analogy and echo-like comparison between the physical sacred space that we perceive with our corporeal senses and the ethereal and spiritual space within us; this way, from a deductive point of view and thinking of it as a matter of reflection, she intends to shift the attention, turning the intangible space into the “artwork itself.”