Reconstruction, strawberry #2

Original on  wood

80 x 90 cm

2023

The Reconstruction of Desire

An explosion of red, almost tactile. A near-photographic precision: every part of the strawberry seems to pulse with life. Then, a radical intervention: the blade cuts through the perfect image and disassembles it. Yet, this is not destruction. It is a near-surgical dissection of our perception.

A “maniacal” precision forces us to confront a strawberry that is no longer a strawberry, but a memory of one. The intensity of the color is amplified by the fragmentation. The lines of the cut create a broken rhythm, a visual dissonance that destabilizes the eye and confuses the senses. We stand before an image that is simultaneously familiar and foreign.

Traditional aesthetics are shattered, sparking an unexpected emotional enthusiasm: the beauty of the unforeseen. The world is never as clean and orderly as we would like, and beauty often resides precisely within its imperfections, within its fractures.

In moments of rupture, after experiences that have fragmented our idea of self and the world, reconstruction does not necessarily have to lead back to the previous order. It can lead to something new, unexpected, and fascinating.

In an era of digital perfectionism, where every image is polished and every flaw removed, this broken strawberry is a cry of rebellion. It embraces chaos, celebrates complexity, and manages to find beauty even in ruins. Because it is precisely through decomposition and recomposition that we discover new dimensions of desire and new ways of seeing the world—and ourselves.

After every break, there is a recomposition, a new form that emerges from the debris. And like this shattered strawberry, our new form can be even more intense, even more fascinating, and even more true than the original.