“TARQUÍN/gender: mud” is a performative study project that leaves a material trace in the form of a multi-sensory installation. The artists play with the juxtaposition of concepts and the limits between binomials that are defined by opposition. They use the transvestism of the nude, of mud clothing, in the search for new sexual references far from the conditioning of the mainstream gaze, in line with the spiritual rite of experimentation of the present: what we are and how we feel. The authors bring us closer from the image and stimuli to a critique of their own position in the social machinery. TARQUIN turns human flesh into bacteria that decomposes natural landscapes through death. He traces a chaotic cartography between the blindness of the West in the face of the global crisis of food products, the social pressure in the face of dissident gender identities and sexuality, and the expiration of old cultural paradigms such as romantic love, nuclear family, or good and evil. He questions us about the search for the necessary ethical death that appears in the cultivation processes, the decomposition of an obsolete system and the multiple roles that compose it, and the end of relationships based on idealization.

“TARQUIN is silt deposited in the fields by floods. It is the mud that appears on the edges of the rice fields, moldable and soft, a fusion of water and earth with nutrients in different states of decomposition. It takes us to a unique range of textures and colors, giving the Albufera irrigation ditches a framed yet wild dimension. It is a bordering space between the sea and two fresh waters, with ravines and boulevards around it.”

WORK TEAM

• Idea and Creation: Cata Domínguez Castelló & Olene Yuste Bros
  Editing and photography advice: Ana Ferràndiz
  Editing, video creation, advice: Valentina Jiménez Calle
  Editing and creation of sound environment: Pedro Sala Mirete