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Aloha Bauwens: "Should I Hide or Escape?" (2025)

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**Hide or Escape** (2025) stems from a personal experience of feeling stuck in a situation where it's unclear whether the solution lies in learning to navigate the environment or abandoning it. The Artwork represents this dilemma through a small architectural frameArtwork of buildings and staircases that ascend and descend, configuring a space where the possibilities for movement multiply, but whose exit remains uncertain. Among the structures appear a few figures, represented by indistinct silhouettes, integrated into this environment of ambiguous orientation. The composition is built upon an isometric grid that organizes the forms and articulates the different perspectives. Black partially delimits the elements, while the contrast between yellow and purple, complementary colors, intensifies the composition and defines a chromatic identity characteristic of the artist. Through her personal pictorial language, the Artwork translates an internal experience into an architectural space where two possibilities confront each other: adapting to the place or finding a way out of it.

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