THE TEAR OF INFINITY (2013, graphite, Indian ink and marker on cardboard, 50 × 70 cm)

Proto-nature
In this work, female bodies move endlessly through the cycle of life. They inhabit the matrix-like realm of a proto-nature, spinning without rest to give birth to humankind and to the order of the visible world.

Feminine principle
In the 5th century, philosophy often conceived the Universe as a structure integrated by a feminine principle of darkness, awaiting a masculine immaterial force —active intellect, or form-light— that would fertilize it.

Plotinus
For Plotinus, this proto-nature was a kind of dark matter, waiting to become a mother, which received the light of the paternal intellect. This light gave it form and enabled it to generate and create.

Kristeva
Concerning the model of mother-as-receptacle-for-reproduction associated with the feminine principle of forms, linguist Julia Kristeva notes that “this body dedicated to ensuring the reproduction of the species,” the woman-subject, is subjected to paternal activity. She becomes, more than others, a filter, a place of passage, a border space marked by absence of being.

Diderot
“Nature is a woman who loves to disguise herself.” — Denis Diderot, De l’interprétation de la nature (XII, 37)