Yoan Capote

Exhibited by Galleria Continua

Material oil, nails and fish-hooks on linen mounted over plywood panel

Dimensions 100 x 200 cm

Status Vetted

About the Work

This work, inspired by the iconic painting by Caspar David Friedrich titled “The Monk by the Sea”, is made with thousands of fishing hooks, symbols of risks, entrapment and pain, that when joined together on this dense surface evoke the textures of a metal hence, a barrier to what lies beyond. Yoan Capote approaches one of the most provoking images for Cubans, the sea, presenting us with this enveloping landscape that many see as their means of scape. A place where tragedy occurs when migrants venture to achieve a better life.

A vast seascape spreads before us, the horizon, irregular, is high above us, we are immersed and adrift in the water.

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