Cuenca/Lauro

It all begins with an act of disobedience, with a small fall from Eden, where things have a pre-established order and harmony reigns. We don't know if it is curiosity, doubt or even just instinct that drives us, but we choose to break the rule and reach beyond the point that has been assigned to us. We abandon our upright position, we bend over, we stoop a little, we lean just enough to break the lines that someone has chosen to lay out for us, and thus we come to touch what flows in between. The shift is only a few degrees, yet nothing is as it should be anymore. What we have been imbued with, passed down from our fathers and our fathers' fathers, no longer resonates as it should, and all concepts, virtues, principles and truths now harbour a distortion that undermines their very nature. In this middle ground, everything falters, human assertiveness finds no foothold, and firm positions crumble to make way for probabilities. We advance between the lines with “ifs” and “maybes”, and we linger in accordance with time.  Here lies the feminine soul, another dimension, alternative and complementary to the masculine one, to which it is equally important. In the feminine, the undefined is possibility and the out of focus is an opening, opposites do not oppose each other and even contradictions find coherence: emptiness fills, absence is presence, fragility strengthens and softness consolidates. The feminine, a fundamental component of our existence, is the dwelling place of otherness and an essential part of the nature of every living being. Yet, despite this, it has been degraded, enslaved and vilified, guilty of not adhering to the values on which we have chosen to base our evolution. But if the axis leans too far to one side for too long, it bends and then breaks, and there is no longer any room for listening, for patience, for acceptance, and for all those virtues with which the feminine soul has been trapped and subjugated, reduced to a mere supporting role. It is necessary to disobey.

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OBEY is an act of disobedience, it is the refusal to accept what does not correspond to us, the possibility of denying, deforming, deconstructing and breaking down what binds and constrains us, in order to bring us closer to those qualities of human identity that risk being forgotten.

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