"Stuffed Animals" - by Ryan Mendoza

"Stuffed Animals" is an imposing installation, made partially of ceramic and given by the accumulation of several piled up stuffed animals, childish toys that allude to the widespread compulsion among adults to surround themselves with objects. The world of childhood appears again, evoked by the soft toys as an immediate metaphor for free creativity. The state of mind of a child whose access to his toys, that is, to his own creativity, to the pure freedom to compose the multiple meanings of his world, reappears. The heap of toys on display is the heap of our subtracted freedoms, which we need to reappropriate in an attempt to resolve the ambiguous and twisted relationship between us and t...View all