Liv”, meaning the most elementary concept of “life” in Swedish, goes deep into the atlases of History where the most profound origin of our existence comes from and which harbours our present, past and future. Water as the origin of life: all comes and returns to it; it is the place of birth, transformation and rebirth. In the series, the metamorphic qualities of water are to be highlighted. Taking into account the fundamental elements that shape up life and noticing how time causes ephemeral and eternal changes is decisive.

Because beneath its almost limitless breadth, lie the concepts of the indefinite, uncertainty and inscrutability. The artworks in this project depict decontextualised masses of water that play a leading role in space and nearly absorb us; eternal universes of matters, ancestral modes and common experiences. The artworks are guided by the emotional experience, convinced as they are that the time of water is at the same time our own time. They are like maps of life, with no plan or pattern, where only the refl ection of the fl ow of the human existence and the fl uctuations of its desires and feelings can be read.

According Victor Hugo, world master of Romantic Movement: “L’Art c’est l’azur” (Art is blue). Art, this time, is the blue mirror in which we look ourselves to fi nd the refl ection of the experience of our intimate being reencountering itself with the collective life experience.

The artworks in the “Liv” series are not in the landscape, but they are the landscape itself. They contain no temporal, referential or human elements. The sea exists in time. Despite its appearance of changelessness, it seems to hold back or invalidate the passing of time; something which has sought to do from the remoteness of History and to which it inevitably belongs.<

The project talks about places common to Mankind in which to get immersed and lost. Places analogue with the temple, yet devoid of stigmas, marks, or implicit sins. Liv refers to the god/man who inhabits all and who is the original metaphor. Liv is the Kantian sublimity that limits itself both to the “state of spirit” and to man’s encounter with nature, the one with the infinite.