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AIRAM AND MARÍA
The work of Airam Sianes is absolutely involved with nature in its most magical state and deepest destruction; it is dual and contradictory, it flows between absolute love and even more absolute disappointment. I even dare to name her in the third person, as something of mine and as an alien at the same time; as an extra limb that I suffer dysphoria from, an annex to my body that is in constant competition with my mind.
I am nonconformist, controlling, patient, complacent, indecisive, voluble, conscious, neutral. She is complicated, extreme, impulsive, selfish, creative, strong, enthusiastic, cheeky and sad, very sad. I can look away but she cries when I do it. She longs, I survive, she travels to other times and I try to listen to her; I´m fascinated by her stories.
I feel like she has always lived with me, especially as a child, I would talk to her, laugh with her and, of course, she used to make me cry. She hibernates more than a bear does, without the benefit of seasonal patterns, I can spend months without hearing any word from her, but when she comes back she appears crying aloud, full of energy. She is negative and powerful, unpredictable and rude, I mostly live with my worst enemy inside. The worst thing is that I am in love with her, she is everything I want to be, that is why I let her take the control of my hands so often, because everything she creates is fantastic. Sometimes, I try to imitate her, to be the owner of my body, because I do envy her, but the result is never positive, that's why I gave up using my name, the merit is hers. In my selfishness, I named her with an anagram of my name, so I could feel myself a little more implicit, but fate answered me with a noisy laugh. I named her backwards to express how opposed to me she was and it turned out that, after years of use, I discovered its meaning; In Guanche, a dead language, like me, Airam means freedom, like her. Freedom, she was free, her misery was all my fault. I remember as if it was yesterday how dazed and ashamed I was. And she was full of glory and laughter. So I have never tried to tame her again, all this is her and her purity, hidden under my mask, enjoying the absence of the body. And so, my body is no longer mine, it´s her tool. Because that is how love works, when she was released, the two of us got united. And from that passion, this fruit was born.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Seville, Spain, in 1995. During her years as a student she lived in Brighton, Bristol, Santa cruz (Tenerife), Madrid and Seville and she is currently looking for her next home; a place where the inspiration would be unavoidable and the creativity, mandatory.
Recently graduated in Fine Arts by University of Seville, but her art work was born in Tenerife, where she spent a year thanks to a scholar intership, where she developed a huge interest on artistic foundry, a technique that since then is the protagonist in her work. She has also collaborated with La Laguna University´s Fabrication Laboratory where she learnt how to turn her passion into a profession of the 21st century, because the multiple possibilities and advantages that technology can offer to sculptures and art field in general. Her experience in The Canary Islands and the direct contact with the pollution of the seas made inevitable her interest in recycling materials, which she habitually use, giving coherence to her ecological discourse.