Áspid

Proyecto T, the residency program of Proyecto H, opens a conversation between the artist Andrea Sotelo, the curator Aída Cantú Artigas and the philosopher Andrés Arce to talk about the exhibition Áspid. Andrea Sotelo came to painting from an exploration that would give meaning to the symbols that emerged from her unconscious.

El áspid - the snake present in her most recent works - is the continuation of the research that Andrea has been doing around the female body. An eternal symbol of the collective unconscious, the snake emerges from the depths of the earth and its shedding symbolizes the regenerative energy of life. By taking it up again in her pieces, Andrea challenges the moral duality implicit in the Judeo-Christian myth to capture in her place a more complex and cyclical nature, reinforcing in turn the important connotation of the dark feminine as the kingdom of the possibilities. The snake's body undulates as it moves, accidentally revealing the foreshortening of a woman with her legs spread; while her forked tongue draws a perfect symmetry in the style of a window or a portal, referring to the uterine canal through which life is sown to gestate and from there sprout.

Áspid is Andrea Sotelo's first solo exhibition and is the result of a deep analysis of her inner world. In an attempt to explain the unconscious to the conscious, Andrea lays bare her own mythology, thereby exhibiting a process of individuation, a reconciliation with her own essence.

— Proyecto H