Ixone Sádaba

“The body is an important and recurring element in my work. But not just any body: a violently distorted, estranged body. What interests me about that conflict is the fictional element of the supposed reality we live in. I think that conflict is partly a product of identity-related tension or absence. That conflict emerges because there are wars, differences of opinion, because history is told one way or another, depending on who your family is or what country you’re in. I’m interested in the violent nature of the human condition, which I suppose is also part of what drives us to create those fictions. Humans have a violent nature, and so does Nature. This creates a series of contradictions that are important in my work. Another idea you find here is that history is a chain of interlocking narratives, and the idea of a consensual fiction, which in a way denies the very existence of identity. Those bodies have no identity; identity doesn’t exist outside that estrangement. Finally, I’m also interested in the socio-political frameworks that generate those fictions.”