Gott ist tot
Gott ist tot, 2015
Video: 4.59´, carved figure of the Virgin (Fatima) on soap 28×11, Seville
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? …What water is there for us to clean ourselves?” Nietzsche, The Gay Science.
The killing of God by man, leads to nihilism, the belief that nothing has any inherent importance, and life has no purpose, therefore our existence has no meaning.
Also one of the most serious outcomes of Nietzsche’s death of God is the death of man, or mankind. God is dead in the hearts and minds of his own generation of modern men, also it means that the idea of God can no longer provide values, but in his book, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” Zarathustra presents the “Übermensch” (the overman, the superman) as the creator of new values. In this way, it appears as a solution to the problem of the death of God and nihilism.
In this project the Virgin made out of soap refers to the ephemeral idea, destruction, but as well with the idea of purification, it is placed outside the headquarters of the Spanish Inquisition in a public space leaving it to be altered and destroyed
Este proyecto propone confrontar los posibles significados que cada persona atribuye a los símbolos; y sobre la idea de la existencia de “Dios” (o de la divinidad) o sobre el nihilismo.
Para Nietzsche, la superación de este nihilismo es el primer paso hacia una sociedad próspera. En los dos sentidos del nihilismo encontramos enfrentados la pérdida y la creación de nuevos relatos: con la muerte de Dios se pone en cuestión el concepto del ser, la construcción ontológica del mundo.
Castillo de San Jorge, Sevilla fue usado como sede y prisión de la Inquisición Española.
La Virgen de jabón recoge la idea de lo efímero, combinada con la idea de la purificación al estar colocada en este espacio escogido. Se destruirá y al disolverse, desaparecerá por estar a la intemperie.
