Insect Vocabulary (2023) consists of a set of three-dimensional cut-out signs, signs that repeatedly appear in Dora García’s drawings, so often that by now they constitute a vocabulary on their...
Insect Vocabulary (2023) consists of a set of three-dimensional cut-out signs, signs that repeatedly appear in Dora García’s drawings, so often that by now they constitute a vocabulary on their own. This work series connects to the artist’s recent drawings L’insecte 1 to 30 (Mad Marginal Charts) (2023) and the set of panels The Bug (2022-2023), all of which relate to the time travel story of The Bedbug, a play by Vladimir Mayakovsky written between 1928 and 1929. The play tells the story of the young soviet man Ivan Prisypkin, who on his wedding day in 1929 is frozen by accident alongside a parasitic insect who becomes his companion throughout the story. Prisypkin is brought back to life fifty years later to a utopian communist world where poverty, illness, romantic love, and natural disasters exist no longer. Prispkyn, however, does not belong in this world, and he is taken and exhibited in a zoo as an example of the human corruptions of the past.
