John David Jaramillo Cárdenas - Untitled from the series "Sin piedad o performance de una caída" (Motherless or performance of a

My name is John David, a Colombian artist, currently based in the UK.
This unframed drawing is a graphite pencil/charcoal on paper, signed on the back and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Paper size A4: 21x27.9 cm
Would be shipped via Royal Mail, Tracked

About this series:

The death of my mother was not only profoundly personal, it became the ground on which my artistic practice is built.
With a gaze rooted in the Catholic tradition, in which I was raised, and in the history of art, I revisit this personal memory through a series of drawings taking inspiration from the iconography of the Pietà, taking as my object of study the body of Christ.
In the traditional imagery of the Pietà, Christ lies in his mother’s arms, as she grieves her loss. In my work, the mother is gone. I become a body in mourning, unheld, in free fall.
Trough this drawings I lean into the tension between the grounded and the falling, explore the absence, the memory as a narrative and the power of the narrative to enrich our personal stories.