• Figurative
• Los Pozos
• On display

Juan Miguel Cubas created this sculpture during the IX Symposium held in the island's capital in 2015. The Majorero artist conceived a figurative work in which a zipper, that toothed fastener that often goes unnoticed on our clothing, becomes the protagonist of a work of art. Because if originally a zipper would join pieces of fabric, Cubas's zipper, in stainless steel, opens down the middle a corten steel beam several meters high. And it is true that the form becomes evident at first glance, that is, any passerby will contemplate it and know with certainty what it represents. But it would be a shame not to dedicate a few more minutes to it and unravel its hidden meanings, its reason for being, the metaphor camouflaged in the form, so characteristic of Cubas's artistic production. El Deseo de Espaldas, this is how the sculptor titles his work, conceived as the materialization of that moment of emotion induced by any change; by that second of uncertainty, before discovering something previously unknown, in which imagination runs wild and desire flows like static electricity. The desire to make the uncertain certain, to unmask expectations, reveal secrets, to strip bare truths... All materialized in something as insignificant as a zipper. Art with a capital A.