evil formlessness / amorphousness
Sospechosavisión / falsaceguera/Suspicious vision / false blindness is, in some of the series, an intimate encounter with first memories and what has come about from them in the present, after passing through the deforming screen of years past.
This crossing, from the first remembrances, is also a difficult navigation against the current of the millions of stimuli to which we expose ourselves daily and that, as time passes, brutally shows us for who we are: powerless beings within a society that is manipulated by the media. We are left with only those images from infancy, Echeverri would seem to be telling us, to which we can grasp in a reliable way, sure that if they are the last that remains in our hands, we can depart/set off with a trustworthy letter of safe passage/safe-conduct toward another space where the first images of our existence are redeemed.
Among the most powerful series of Sofía Echeverri’s creations are those that are related to the “Células/Cells”, bursting with color and malice and with what she calls “Evil Formlessness”, a series of signs with thoughtful phrases, which she herself has said denote feelings of hypocrisy and desires for power in a very discrete way…almost hidden, in the middle of a stain without a defined shape.
This work, carefully made in order to seem as though it were an organism capable of harboring words in its inner depths, gives away some of the most uncomfortable moments of its production, with a deceitfully simple appearance, and puts before us texts that are read from where she has erased lines of the drawing and partially “extracted” words from that which has been omitted. Evil Formlessness puts before our eyes works such as “Vengar cautivando/Avenge by captivating:”
And if there were any doubt, she herself has said: “Vulnerability, the absurd, the empty, are themes that permeate these pieces that take human form and sometimes animal. By way of images from infancy, we recognize that we are fragile and, paradoxically, hardly conscious of death.”