Disintegrating Army

"Disintegrating Army"
Sculpturs, 2019
Industrial gypsum, Plasticine
230 units.

The project is composed by 230 units of disintegrating plaster sculptures.

This amount of sculptures was made in order to give the sensation of a discovered underburied army sculptures such as the as the archeological discovery the Terracotta Army in China.

In deference from the archeological discovery the 230 sculptures were made from industrial plaster, not capable of being preserved in its full form for even more than one exhibition.

The shapes of the 230 units are taken from a collection of collectible dolls I own. Ever since I was a baby my mother made sure I was surrounded by dolls and toys, this action was a reaction of compensation from my mother's childhood of not having many dolls as a child.

As I was growing up colleting became a need almost a hoarding action, and so I started my own collection of dolls as an adult. The dolls came in deferent shapes, colors, attributes, sizes and meaning, each doll was unique to me even if it was an industrial doll made in a factory with a serial number.

I chose to use the plastic mold that the dolls were kept in and decided to become one woman factory by reusing the molds and making my own sculptures army. I used the non-value part of my doll collection and re-purpose the plastic molds by creating 230 units of new sculptures, each with a different shape, size and meaning, and in some of them I have inserted plasticine, a material I was familiar closely as a child.

This disintegrating army was made as a re-action to my mother's childhood by creating a dynasty of new dolls, however the 230 was made with industrial plaster that was reshaped and disintegrated with every touch and crumbling until it is no longer resembles the strong army it once was, slowly releasing me from the obsession to hoard and letting my childhood to stay in the past.