yamila velazquez - Golden Scars

About the work:
The piece presented is part of a limited edition of 5 units worldwide, digitally produced and hand-signed by the artist. Each print is unique within its series, ensuring its exclusivity and authenticity. On the back are included all pertinent data of the work, numbering, and signature.
Total dimensions: 100 x 65 cm
Material: High-quality professional canvas 100% cotton, maximum resistance to handling and external agents of the Eco Canvas Roma Glossy, Satin finish. We guarantee a durable product with visual quality.
Technique: Giclée print, renowned for its precision and durable quality.

Certificate of authenticity:
If the buyer wishes, the artist can provide a certificate of authenticity. This must be requested expressly at the time of purchase.

About the artist:
Yamila Velázquez (Las Tunas, Cuba, 1993) is a contemporary artist who uses digital intelligence tools; she currently lives and works in Alicante, Spain. Owner and partner of a company dedicated to the sale, representation, and development of artists and artworks, Velázquez blends her business vision with a deep artistic sensitivity.
This young Cuban talent has established herself in the field of digital art, using contemporary media to explore themes related to nature, landscape, and the intimate relationship between woman and her environment. Her works address with subtlety and visual strength themes such as beauty, love, sensuality, and feminine delicacy, always framed in enveloping, romantic, and refined atmospheres.
With a vibrant and expressive aesthetic, Yamila Velázquez manages to merge classical influences with a modern language, resulting in versatile, fresh, and deeply evocative works. The pictorial texture of her images, the masterful use of color, and the emotionally balanced composition position her work as a current artistic proposal of high aesthetic value.

Shipping and presentation:
The work will be carefully packaged by a professional and shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, internally protected with bubble wrap to guarantee its integrity during transport. Shipments are made through reliable courier companies such as UPS, FedEx, or Correos Spain, depending on the destination and the most convenient option in each case.
The estimated delivery time is 7 to 10 days, though it may vary depending on the destination country.

In The Transparent Fortress, Yamila Velázquez closes her poetic exploration of masculinity in the series “Golden Scars” with a work that redefin es the essence of strength. This white porcelain male figure, decorated with a blue floral pattern and marked by subtle fractures repaired with gold, is both a monument and a confession. It is the sculpture of a new masculinity: elegant, sensitive, aware of its breaks, and proud of its scars.

The body depicted here seems carved in genuine ceramic. Its polished surface reflects light as if it were a museum piece. Yet it is much more than an object of contemplation: it is an emotional symbol. The white porcelain, with its golden cracks and traditional floral decorations, evokes export Chinese ceramics, that precious, fragile, and desired good, brought here to a male body.

The firm stance, with interlaced fingers and a gaze of contained tension, reminds us that serenity can also be strength. This is not a body that displays dominance, but dignity. It does not need to impose itself: it offers itself.

The chromatic choice—ivory white, cobalt blue, and pale gold—reinforces the purity and nobility of the piece. The visual technique perfectly simulates ceramic crackling and combines it with a classical, precisely rendered anatomy that recalls Renaissance sculptures, but reinterpreted with contemporary digital sensitivity.

The floral ornamentation, so intrinsically linked to femininity, is inscribed here on male skin without contradiction. There is no irony or gratuitous provocation: there is beauty, balance, and respect. This image is, at its core, a homage to coexistence.

Velázquez proposes with this work a definitive revision of traditional masculine codes. It is no longer about denying fragility or overcoming it through brute force. It is about incorporating it as part of the whole. The cracks—minuscule, but present—speak to internal processes: the pain that was lived and integrated, not the pain that was hidden. It is a body that has been objectified, that has been broken, but has decided to restore itself as a work of art.

The flower on the head, a symbol of thought and sensitivity, crowns the figure not as an ornament, but as a statement: here beauty is not weakness, it is wisdom.

The Transparent Fortress dialogues with neoclassical sculpture, Eastern ceramics, martyr iconography, and the contemporary aesthetics of queer art and posthumanism. It could belong to a classical temple as well as to a conceptual art exhibition.

It connects with the works of artists such as Igor Mitoraj or Erwin Wurm, for their symbolic approach to the body, and with visual designers like James Jean or Alexander McQueen, for their syncretism between ornament, fragility, and power.