Arnés compuesto por tejido de tapicería, gomas elásticas y anillas metálicas. Escala 1:1.
Harness composed of upholstery fabric, elastic bands and metal rings. Scale 1: 1.
Hiru 2014/2015
HIRU begins through the influence of Eric Fromm's fear of freedom, where the freedom of the human being is questioned. The individual who does not bet on releasing his emotional and creative potentiality, seeks to create bonds that provide security and belonging to something, such as symbiosis with other people.
A previous social experiment allowed me to reflect on this symbiotic union between two people and the movement. The human body has a central axis that balances its position, the union of two people however, moves the matrix to the point of cohesion. It is then that the understanding between the two people is evidenced through the fluidity and plasticity of the movements, whereas the lack of connection generates the opposite. That is why the emotional link between people becomes the motor that consolidates the rhythms of the two people, coming to form a single movement.
The division of our body into two parts; The head (our intellectual capacity) and the body (our emotional and sensitive perception), supports our lack of coherence in social relations. If we are not able to know and understand our body as a whole, how are we going to understand the other? Nonverbal language allows us to perceive a broader perspective of communication between human beings, to understand others in greater depth and, consequently, to better understand oneself. Many researchers agree that the body is used to negotiate interpersonal attitudes. While verbal language is conscious, the body gives us due to its unconsciousness; Is an external reflection of the emotional condition of the person. For this reason, the more intimate our relationship is with the other person, the more access we have to their personal space; As in the case of couples.
Erich Fromm, was a prominent psychoanalyst, social psychologist and humanist philosopher of German Jewish origin. Fromm, through the question Is love an art? Begins to question like love in the same way as the artistic disciplines, requires a knowledge and effort. According to the author, the problem of love consists essentially in being loved, not in loving, or in the capacity to love. Love is understood as an object and not as a faculty.
The love for the present society, focuses on finding that appropriate object to love, and to be loved by him. This perspective along with other theories about the development of relationships, allowed me to understand how couples are a constant evaluation between costs and rewards produced. All relationships focus on maximizing their rewards, minimizing costs. In the same way, the relationships themselves are dynamic, which further intensifies the analysis of the participants in the relationship. Another of the well-studied points is that inequality always generates anguish, for the constant attempts to establish equity.
The interview with a therapist professionalized in pairs, allowed me to understand that conflict is part of us from the moment we have emotions. The pair are three parts, two make up the subjects and a third the common project. This relationship is a real opportunity for the maximum exposure of the human being, but in the same way, it can be a reason for weariness if it is not taken as such. The interview helped me to understand my interest in finding new ways of understanding and solving these periods of crisis. That is why my proposal puts in value the attempt to make feel in the first person, and together, the most frequent conflicts in this type of relationships: dependence, power games, lack of empathy versus teamwork or the couple as an opportunity for self-realization. All this, emphasizing the importance of mutual learning through non-verbal language and movement.
HIRU allows each member of the couple to reflect on their position and how they act in the relationship, without the need for intermediaries. This piece is specially designed to be used in the domestic space as a tool that allows interacting and executing micro actions. Through this element the daily activities that were usually done individually, are carried out in pairs.