Esfinges - Blanca Haddad

Blanca Haddad (Caracas, 1972) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, poetry, video art, and performing arts.

Esfinges brings together a series of large-scale paintings along with an installation of texts, poems, and self-portraits that articulate a reflection on the figure of the sphinx as a symbol of the incomprehensible, the enigmatic, and the monstrous.

The exhibition is based on a reading of the sphinx as a paradigm of the immeasurable, linked to notions of justice, catharsis, and knowledge. In the artist’s words:

“The human mind perceives as monstrous that which is boundless, untamed, or incomprehensible, due to its size, its nature, or its complexity. Thus, the sphinx, the riddle par excellence and, for Jung, a symbol of the terrible mother, is a paradigm of the immeasurable…”

Through this figure, the project delves into the tension between fear, desire, and knowledge, exploring the moment in which what is forbidden or unknown is transformed into an experience of appropriation and empowerment.