Abigail Lazkoz: Hide the Hand

Abigail Lazkoz (Bilbao, 1972) has created a site-specific project for the Laboratorio 987 of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León entitled, Esconde la mano (Hide The Hand) .

The title has multiple connotations in itself related to the exact meaning of the Spanish saying that talks about "throwing the stone and hiding the hand" and as a metaphor that refers to the idea that, as the artist explains: "the normality of the individual is not only necessary but obligatory: one has to learn to shut up, learn to smile, learn to manifest one's self, learn to give birth, learn to be different (...) It is advised to live without making much noise neither to be bad (if you throw the stone, hide your hand) nor to be good (even if you don't throw the stone, hide your hand), etc." . In this way, Abi Lazkoz offers scenes where huge figures created with black lines on a white background appear, using a language similar to comics. To reflect basically on (her) the surrounding reality.

The work of Abigail Lazkoz reflects on political or social reality and gender roles through a drawing structure close to the world of graphic vignette, establishing questions on the spectator themselves that have to be revealed upon going beyond what drawing, apparently simple, offers at first glance. As such, the titles of the majority of her works—usually phrases—clarify part of the meaning.

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Laboratorio 987: Abigail Lazkoz: Hide the Hand