The composition is derived from images of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Tacla’s deliberate evocation of such a horrific event, experienced by most of us only through news reports and...
The composition is derived from images of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Tacla’s deliberate evocation of such a horrific event, experienced by most of us only through news reports and media outlets, forces us to consider our relationship to that catastrophe. Influenced by the writings of the forensic anthropologist Roxana Ferllini and the Hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi, the artist effectively translates the pictorial space of the canvas into a psychological one. To signify such unsettled worlds he uses an obsessive pictorial language, repeating the same gesture in the same space many times until the visual register is analogous to the trauma that prompts it.