Colombia, 1991
In Arrázola’s work the depicted children manifest themselves not only as independent and complete beings, but also invoke-through the traces or marks that each character leaves in the environment they inhabit – the ordering interaction of the world and the transformation of space characteristic of human beings at any age. The paper materializes the metaphor of the blank sheet of paper alluding to the potential of life itself. It also constitutes the field of action of homo ludens, the man who plays, creating an equivalence between art and life where the children represented fulfill an alter ego function in the performing of the artist’s actions. The various strategies of drawing Arrázola employs simultaneously lead us to multiple levels of signification alluding to childhood, the practice of art, the perception of the viewer, and additionally manifests that life itself is-like paper-a field for exploratory action and constant re-creation.
Natalia Vega, Art Historian and Critic
