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Aisen Chacin's sculptural shapes, channels us to question the metaphysical levels of the human existence. The three-dimensional work composed by multiple forms installed in the aerial space resembles body fragments or human remains that stand out in a limbic zone, dramatically frozen in the air. The pieces hang from the wall or from the ceiling in a tensional climate, visually confrontational.

Aisen Chacin infiltrates emotional darkness and a strong undertone to these distorted, even colorful abstract pieces. Behind the contorted and twisted shapes Chacin provokes strong visual associations with body parts that could relate to these condensed masses of molded plastics. Do they set out as remnants of human fatality? Resulting of a catastrophic event or a Human ordeal?

Their expressionistic shapes and dislocated volumes hold out a tragic allure. The pieces convey a felling of neo-romanticism in their inside object-ness. In a subtle borderline between dialectical metaphysical oppositions, they encompass frictional encounters and aggressive links.



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Aisen Chacin proposes a poignant view of children in critical conditions of our society. The artist, with a sharp sense of the cultural and social factors that affect the infant population today, creates highly incisive works in the form of photo-sculptures and video-sculptures: metal ensembles that resemble bathroom drains or street sewers in which the artist shows videos and photographs. A gallery of children’s faces of Chinese, Latin American, and African origin show through the metal grille, like from a limbo-prison. Chinese girls, children of the Brazilian “favelas” (shanty towns) and of the African continent, gaze the viewer from the depths of the drainage hole. Their calm, angry or vivacious expressions hide their social dismal and their fated destiny. They are abandoned children, obliterated by devastating forces of modern society. They stand as social casualties, as the injured party in the big game of Post-Capitalist society. Chacin’s conceptual work points out the precariousness and vulnerability of these individuals trapped in the voracious and destructive web of political and social violence.