Description
5 Reyes
Bronze and marble · Unique piece · 16 × 40 × 7 cm · 20155 Reyes presents a sequence of five bronze heads suspended on a marble base, figures that embody the symbolic loss of the senses: ageusia, anosmia, blindness, deafness, and anaphylaxis. Each one, marked by a different expression and varying degrees of wear or anatomical exposure, reveals a face of contemporary power: authorities who govern without feeling, without hearing, without smelling, without tasting, without touching. A power disconnected from that which legitimizes it: human experience.
The work proposes a critical metaphor: when the senses disappear, so does empathy.
The kings become isolated entities, incapable of perceiving the impact of their decisions. Their sensory silence functions as a commentary on systems that, by becoming impervious to the real world, operate from a distance, with insensitivity or automated control.
The interactive nature of the work, visible in the possibility of turning the heads on their axes, draws the viewer into a game of relationships. The figures can face each other, ignore each other, align themselves, or
contradict each other, suggesting dialogues—or tensions—between forms of power that are disconnected from each other.
This mobility makes each configuration a different reading, a continuous rewriting of the work's discourse.
Made of noble and austere materials, 5 Reyes combines solidity and fragility: the firmness of marble against the expressive vulnerability of bronze. Taken together, the piece paints a portrait of
institutional dehumanization, of how the absence of perception transforms leadership into a blind and mute structure, incapable of understanding what it governs.
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