SABEK
“Origen”
Inauguration on Thursday May 16th at 20h.
Exhibition from May 17th to June 29th 2019.
For SABEK (Madrid, 1985) the colour black goes beyond the tangible reality of physical nature. The absence of colour that fills the silhouette of the animals he depicts is to be understood as a void, or meditation. Animal figures by SABEK invite the viewer to free themselves from the reality that traps them, a reality which we impose on ourselves, that distances us from what we naturally are. A false reality that we accept for the sole purpose of satisfying our human ego, or simply to deal with the boredom caused by our everyday existence.
SABEK invites us to connect with our ancestral origin. He asks us to take the final and courageous step of entering his black animal silhouettes and emptying ourselves of that which is not part of our essential nature. His work is an invitation to face that which we would prefer to eliminate from our consciousness. To describe the experience of facing the vision of his murals – these interventions in the public space – requires a sincere internal effort.
The catalogue of SABEK’s animals on walls around the
world show a series of spiritual entities that appear in urban territory
to offer us the lost nexus of our animal origins. We have forgotten these wild origins, and if we don’t reconnect with them we can threaten our own way of
life. It is human greed that has led us astray, wandering aimlessly towards a fleeting end that we choose not to face, blinded by our ambitions while we deny the consequences of our actions. Human greed is undoing the balance within nature, and in turn, within ourselves. Therefore, in SABEK’s work, black is understood as the colour that links everything together, given that this colour materializes the energy that it captures from the environment. This energy connects the past with the present and the future, the explicit with the implicit, the lost human essence with its ancestral animal origin. We should not forget: the human species is the only one capable of breaking the natural order in which nothing is superfluous. Only humans can bring themselves to the
brink of disappearance.