Re-⚭-membering Eden

An Inquiry into Shame, Death, and Sacred Matter

INTRODUCTION: Re-⚭-membering the Cycle

What if the Fall was not punishment, but misinterpretation?
What if decomposition is not shameful, but sacred?

Re-membering Eden proposes that humanity’s exile from paradise was not caused by sin, but by recoil: the traumatic recognition of entropy, mortality, and the body’s participation in the Cycle of Life.
Through symbolic artworks and reflective theory, this project reweaves the fragmented relationship between matter and spirit, shame and grace.

  • The Fruit of Partial Knowledge 2013-2023 | 90x80cm Installation: Mixed media painting: torn sand paper and light colored plastic fringe in 2023 goat skull and key were added An abstract artwork featuring a cracked, apple-like shape in the center, adorned with a skull on the top left and an antique key at the bottom right. The background includes textured patterns and layers, highlighting themes of decay and transformation.
  • Fundamental Misconception | 2023| Triptych of mixed materials consisting of: A) Two wardrobe panels measuring 150×50 cm that are shaped like a handwritten page and bear at the edges 4 crosses and € small reproductions of works processed with wax. The excerpts and images on the left refer to Genesis, while on the right, to the Revelation of John and the Resurrection. B) A composite section in the center: a panel measuring 48.5 x 100 cm and a box measuring 48.5 x 60 x 10 cm, on which rests a ceramic vase containing soil and the ready-made figure of Caganer as Rodin’s thinker. On the left side, a plasticized figure of an angel is positioned 5 cm above the surface, supported by a construction made of bronze wire. The central section is an appropriation from two triptychs by Hieronymus Bosch: A) From the work Haywain, the left panel illustrating the Birth and the Fall of the first parents and B) And the figures under the tree, from the central panel of the Garden of Earthly Delights, in order to depict the era of innocence, before the awareness of our deconstructive nature.
  • Fundamental Misconception (detail) In the foreground a 8 cm tall readymade figurine of Rodin’s Thinker as a Caganer placed in vase with soil A Caganer (Catalan for “the pooper”) is a traditional figurine in Catalan nativity scenes (pesebres or beléns), depicting a person defecating. The Caganer is often hidden somewhere in the nativity scene, adding humor and a touch of irreverence to the otherwise solemn setting.
  • Decarnis Cycle, 2017 – ongoing, installation, comprising of the works: Iron Shame, Menu of Shame, Longing to Ascent and Outcast. Viewers can bend down, grab hold of the handles supporting the mannequin “Iron Shame” and step inside so that their faces align with the inside of my Decarnis mask and look at “Menu of Shame” and, above it, “Longing for Ascent” as if looking through my eyes. DECARNIS⚫: (a neologism derived from Latin ‘de’ (away) and ‘carnis’ (flesh)) The psychological alienation from bodily existence. The grief and shame of inhabiting a decomposing, mortal body. The sense of shrinking caused by all the physical processes that can potentially disgust and drive people away. The glyph: visually represents the psychological burden that, like a prisoner’s ball and chain, pulls us down and creates the need to balance it with a corresponding “uplifting” behaviors, values, and/or achievements.
  • Labyrinths of Shadows (2023) Circular light fixture, laminated image, plastic mesh, thread, dimensional paint | 30 cm diameter Created as a companion piece to Make Amends, Labyrinths of Shadows visualizes the hidden psychological labyrinth that imprisons the disavowed forces within us the instinctual, decaying, animal self, symbolized by the Minotaur. A circular light halo frames a suspended labyrinth: a partial embroidery stitched onto plastic mesh. Behind it, a laminated depiction of the Minotaur walks, partially obscured. Text-“See no evil / Hear no evil / Speak no evil”-radiates in a spiral across a second translucent layer, completing the labyrinth visually only when viewed through light and alignment. The work suggests that repression (++) creates the maze we cannot escape. Only by illuminating (4) the denied beast within-by daring to look at decomposition, grief, and animality – can we begin to find the thread (~) back to wholeness.
  • Oceanic feeling – (Formerly: After the sunset) | 2017 | 80 x 120 cm | acrylic on wood panel | Central work of the installation: What does Sea mean to m

(Simple diagram under it:

Seed → Fracture → Exile → Denial → Collapse → Re-membering → Benediction)
(Hover or click could show the artworks under each phase.)

The project emerges from a deep inquiry into the roots of shame, hierarchy, and humanity’s alienatio

An abstract artwork featuring a cracked, apple-like shape in the center, adorned with a skull on the top left and an antique key at the bottom right. The background includes textured patterns and layers, highlighting themes of decay and transformation.