Moisés Mahiques
Grup i Camí, 2024
Marker, pigment and phosphorescent acrylic paint
460x300 cm and 457x300 cm
Espai Vives, ground floor. Campus of Blasco Ibáñez. Collection of the Universitat de València
Picture by: Eduardo Alapont
This work is part of the project "Universitat de València's values: Art and heritage over the campus"
Traces of the common
The murals done by Moisés Mahiques for the Lluís Vives Hall of Residence are located at the annex rooms, both left and right from the entrance. The proposal consists of subtle black marker drawings, almost imperceptible. where the drawing roams free to bring forth a dense network of unstable bodies.
There, the bodies become fertile on their relations, grabbing one another, superimposed in a tangled mess that makes them grow and grow asif that was the only thing giving them meaning, the meaning of the common. We see bodies that seek, bodies that touch and bodies that hug; bodies that rise, lean, bodies that walk and bodies that stand still. Also bodies that are defined based only on what they do or how others move, as there does not seem to be a clear distinction between one body and the next. In the mural Grup, some figures crowd around creating a circle to which more and more bodies appear to join in from the extremes. That which is eccentric harmonises with the common.
As if moved by desires and emotions, the characters seem to move like a hive mind and become part of an all encompassing excess. On the other hand, at the Camí mural we find constant formal similarities. As in the other mural, there are limits that, in some way or another, regulate the chaos surrounding the figures. Here the frontiers do not exclude anything. Everything is shown simply pushing forward, sometimes even more than expected, with the perhaps conflictive consequent absorption of all the excess.
An exchange of terms moves the figures between the lines and combines that which in opposition could be seen. It is once again what the group tells beyond the individual, or rather, with the individual. In this play of lines highlights one which appears to shrouds everyone and everything. It could well be the drawing of an astral figure with flexible cardinal points that highlights how, despite everything looks like a mess, it all obeys the same dynamic, that which reigns over the chaos in which we are engulfed.
José Luis Clemente
Universitat Politècnica de València
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