Estética de lo efímero en artes visuales contemporáneas como realización simbólica de la fragilidad de los recuerdos en la ancianidad

Abstract

Memories and reminiscence have a relevant place in the life of the elderly, because it contributes positively in their life quality, in a period that presents different physical and emotional issues. In this context, it is intended to reflect artistically the fragility of the memory in a contemporary visual artwork of symbolic nature, under the ephemeral as a concept, based on the exploration of human memories in the old age. That is how be to remain which is composed by a diptych in the technic acrylic on nylon monofilament, starts by the ethnographic investigation and —for that way— the direct observation cases, the interview and the life story, for visually rebuild splitted memories of two elderly people, in a visual-archaeological exercise that provides them of an aesthetic pleasure, while stimulates their abilities of human reaffirmation and self-recognition. The artwork turns out an installation whose assembly allows a multidimensional appreciation, and the aesthetic experience develops for an instant a message of the fragility, fading and the volatile mood, through symbolic scenes and materials that refracts the light.