Suspension (2015)
In Suspension, a young man hangs mid-air. He falls, or floats, through time and space. The colours and materiality around the man change constantly and are as elusive as the situation he is in. Is it water, is it air, is there gravity? There is no solid ground; the surreal events are difficult to put into words. The images create a tension between reality and fiction. Is the artist showing a dream world, a fantasy, a nightmare, or a very personal view of how he sees the world? Is Suspension a visualisation of a worldview in which man falls deeper and deeper into his own humanity, in an endless void as well as in a timeless gravity? Possibly. Sebastian Diaz Morales writes: ‘Out there, there may be no more than void, and the fall may be eternal. Perhaps this is the reason why we recurrently dream about falling. Perhaps falling isn’t a dream at all—perhaps falling is what’s real.’