FLYPAPER
130 x 200 cm adhesive sheet, nail, dead fly, 2022
A white sheet covers an indistinct shape and blends with the wall it adheres on. Within the camouflage role that the Flypaper takes upon its surroundings, a fly is nailed to the tridimensional area and accentuates the whole micro-to-macro scale dynamic. The flypaper’s conventional functioning is altered, in the sense that the adhesive side isn’t the one that is exposed, and what is actually sticked isn’t on, but under it. The fly isn’t what is actually being trapped, its presence seems forced, almost like joke that is used to distract the viewer from what’s under it. No one knows what’s under the white sheet, only that there is an attempt to hide it. The fly symbolism also makes some references to a famous trompe-l’œil used by painters to trick the observer into wandering if a painted fly was real or not, as well as it a being a culturally known symbol of decay, death, and mortality.