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Project Description

The theory of stability of dynamic systems proposed in 1892 by the Russian mathematician Aleksander Lyapunov covers three states of equilibrium: stable, unstable and asymptotically stable. Any of these three possibilities suggest that the origin, the point at which the body stands independently of external supports, is in fact a solution for equilibrium. The body always achieves balance by locating its own center.
The series entitled Stability takes this premise in a metaphorical way from Lyapunov´s theory to confront the physical, emotional and mental states within each figure once they have been stripped and destabilized. More than just photographs, theses images are sculptural proposals concerning canonical treatments of bodily beauty throughout the history of art. They are also notes on the possibility and impossibility for man to seize and sustain his permanence on earth.