Cachete Jack
Connecting people, 2024
Wall painting
140 x 350 cm
ETSE, 1st floor. Universitat de València, Burjassot Campus
Photo by: Eduardo Alapont
This work is part of the project "Universitat de València's values: Art and heritage over the campus"
The painting placement and Cachete Jack
The wall painting Connecting people by Nuria Bellver and Raquel Fanjul (Cachete Jack) brings wellbeing: you run into it at the cafeteria or the ETSE halls. The mural first goal is met, bring allure to the context. Another goal was to advertise by illustration Universitat de València’s values. Cachete Jack painted on their own style: large colored stains and a mainly warm and saturated palette. The work lightens up the space between a tiny garden, the Department of Information Technology and the dining room. The diptych form was solved as a centre piece.
The visual path goes through the meeting eyes of female characters. Polysemy is a signature feature of Cachete, another trait of figurative mural work: looking into the wall as if it was a mirror and project dreams, illusions and fears from an intimate compromise and particular perspective.
The left side of the wall portrays a Young woman with her headphones on and her pone connecting her with the people on the other border. The artists do put us on their work as well through the right side’s videocall, where several women chat from one screen to the other. The keyboard makes up the back of the seats in front of the stage: telecommunication cannot be separated of today’s lifestyle.
Although life doesn’t happen only on the screen. Cachete reflects on ambivalence of relations, always available on our devices as some sort of tendril. Maybe humans don’t need the immediate communication but rather the encounter at a café.
Juan Canales
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