Translating a curatorial text about my work into English, published in Uruguay and Brazil, for the event "Art Experience Tour". The paintings for this event were curated and selected by Delloite Foundation, in 2012.
"The plastic artist Hedy Sissely Cordero Barrios meets with her artworks in strong intensity existential moments. Her paintings are related to dream worlds: shadows like ghosts, winged goblins, whispering angels. They refer to parallel "Universes" whose mixture with this daily routine we call "Reality".
There are, in her images, many questions thrown into the Cosmos... mythical messages commune with multidimensional beings: ancient voices bring invitations from distant games. Everything calls for permanence in this hinge time, Here and Now.
With the force of the colour in jets, in passionate contrast of opposites, on very high palettes sometimes... on very shy and melancholic palettes, other times, the artist plays to reinvent us.
Other times it is matter that imposes itself, colludes, to finish assembling the plot: there is darkness inside the being, but even so, there is a purpose to fulfil. Everything goes in circular thought, evidencing the eternal struggle of opposites, the constant return to Unity.
This intense but not apocalyptic work shows that other "Logic" is possible, other worlds are attainable. "
December 2018, Germany. Was ist deine Angst?
For this exhibition, artist Hedy Sissely Cordero Barrios presents a collage series in dialogue with a book—an interactive invitation for the audience to confront a single question: What is your fear? Those willing to engage can leave a written testimony within the book, its cover designed by the artist herself.
Through this collage series, Cordero Barrios examines the representation of the Seven Deadly Sins, suggesting an uncanny link between fear and human action. For centuries, religion dictated moral boundaries, defining right and wrong, heaven and hell—a cosmic negotiation where salvation was always within reach, provided one repented. But what happens when religion no longer serves as our moral compass? When humanity is free to determine its own ethical framework?
The artist envisions a world beyond inherited beliefs, beyond the binary of good and evil. In this evolving reality, fear and love emerge as guiding forces—but could another, entirely new energy rise beyond this duality? How would it manifest? How would it taste, feel, or shape the world? And most provocatively—can we even begin to imagine a paradigm beyond what we know?