ACTS OF AGGRESSION
Digital drawings
2017
30 x 20 cm
27 portraits on cotton paper
Edition of 5 copies + 1 AP
In this series of drawings Santizo approached artists and curators in Guatemala and asked them for a hug. Each resulting drawing is a portrait of a member of a contentious, fractured, dynamic community of artists, in which a hug might have many layers of emotional meaning. There's something about touch, about being wrapped in someone's arms for as long as it takes to read this sentence, that is inherently uncomfortable or silly or loving, or all those things at once. In this juxtaposition--between the title, Acts of Aggression, and the gesture of the hug--Santizo describes the ways we make community, the fragile balance by which we connect to one another, the insecurities we bring to such encounters. There is a thin line between affection and aggression, between giving and taking, between belonging and not, between falling apart and being held together.
Laura Agust, 2017
Esvin Alarcon Lam, Andrea Aragón, Hellen Ascoli, Moisés Barrios, Stefan Benchoam, Marilyn Boror, Edgar Calel, Alfredo Ceibal, Benvenuto Chavajay, Manuel Chavajay, Jorge Chavarria, Gail Cochrane, Camila Fernández, Margarita Figueroa, Regina José Galindo, Yasmin Hage, Eny Roland Hernández, Reyes Josué, Maya Lemus Saravia, Jorge de León, Yabheni de León, Jorge Linares, Andrea Mármol, Erick Menchú, Andrea Monroy Palacios, Sandra Monterroso, Norman Morales, Erica Muralles, Renato Osoy, David Peréz, Nora Pérez, Manuel Antonio Pichilla, Cecilia Porras, Fernando Poyón, Lyndsie Price, Pablo José Ramirez, Lourdes de la Riva, Alberto Rodríguez, Gabriel Rodríguez, Alma Ruíz, Diego Sagastume, Diana de Soares, Emiliano Valdez, Sergio Valencia Salazar, Andres Vargas, Inés Verdugo, Plinio Villagran Galindo, Laura Wellen, Ana Werren, Paulina Zamora.