
Like a monster thirsting for a vague expression devoid of apparent meaning, this movement promotes not so much the proliferation of ideas as the result of creation itself, in a bewildering blend of possibilities that conventional logic stifled due to its supposedly unworthy origins, according to experts and academia. Consequently, language as a social product becomes unreliable due to the corruption it has undergone at the hands of this society, leading to its confrontation as a conventional agent, since its logic is considered the very cause of all evils (Béhar & Carassou, 1996). Thus, the dismantling of established parameters arrives at a moment of crisis, feeding this monster to grow rapidly and forcefully in the emancipation of new possibilities of expression, which is used as a weapon to sow confusion and public scandal, thereby elevating the vulgar and the commonplace in a world tainted by the pursuit of perfection.
Between chance, randomness, accident, and other variables, elements are provided which, in their nature and union, are eclectic, and techniques emerge that cement a new language: incoherent, arrogant, vulgar, and grotesque, aimed at “replacing the logical absurdity of today’s men with illogical nonsense” into which they had fallen as into a silent trap. As a result, the negation of conventional language mutates to give rise to forbidden manifestations, conceived with unusual techniques that portray as virtuous the surroundings and everyday objects within their decadent composition and shocking contemplation (Ball, 2005).
Ball, Hugo (2005). Flight Out of Time. Barcelona: Acantilado.
Béhar, Henri & Carassou, Michel (1996). Dada: History of a Subversion. Barcelona: Ediciones Península.
Multi-Forked Dada Tongue
Digital Collage
Inkjet print on 170g natural, wood-free uncoated paper.
2016
[ Photography • Collage ]
