Amelia Campino's body
From the stubborn line
Ricardo Loebell
In Amelia Campino's work, the strokes on the surface drag striated lines of a drawn calligraphy that make contact with the essence of the paper. In the East, this essence would originate from a cloud, whose drizzle stimulates the growth of the bush with which the papyrus is later made.
The lines are stubborn, born from tiny points drawn in a continuous succession. They populate surfaces, generating bodies in determined spaces contained by them. Thus is born the hyphology of an almost living and elusive body. The absorbed ink shows us in each work a scratched, rubbed and tickled body. The line, being smooth, light or uncertain, always points to a force, a direction; which makes the impulse and its surplus eligible. In the words of Roland Barthes about the work of Cy Twombly, the line is a visible and inimitable action. That which is inimitable is, finally, the body.
Each of Amelia Campino's works takes us back to the bark of its origin, showing the scratches on the damp, flayed plant skin. The fissures in the cutaneous support structure a grammar like a score, whose rhythm in each stroke allows us to associate the space with the work of Iannis Xenakis, composer, mathematician and architect who creates, from the musicality of massive natural phenomena, a work organized by the same laws applied to musical composition.
Each line is a rhythmic struggle with time. It defies the setback and furrows to the boundary of the infinite horizon of the paper. In this surrender, the artist consecrates herself in a graphic offering going back to the origin of art. This places us in the analogy of semantic games whose principle will be that every text, fabric, cloth or paper, as a body, shows us a plow of scars. I remember Severo Sarduy when he establishes throughout his work, relationships of similarity between writing, coding, tattooing and painting, until they are homologous.
Just as the myth goes that every pair of parallel lines would intersect at an improper point, in the artist's bundle of lines, similar to a chorus of voices, which begins to reconstruct silence, one experiences the unfolding that longs to find itself in infinity.
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