Corners of my room (2020)
‘Corners of my room’ is a unique hand-carved triptych, the three main panels of which depict the walls of the room where Tasio Bidegain created this work in December 2019 and January 2020. The complexity of this seemingly simple idea lies in the very nature of our current digital era. As during these months, the room was inhabited not only by the artist, his loved ones and his stuff, but also by an infinite number of (digital) images; ones and zeros, measurable and profitable information, instead of bearers of meaning and emotion. With this work Bidegain seeks to organise and understand the shapeless storm of information constantly released upon us by the digital age.
Tasio Bidegain creates new visual ways to describe complex facets of reality and paints, draws, photographs and films to reflect on his environment. He uses painting, drawing, video and photography as a quotidian way to react and reflect on his surroundings. For this project, he combined photographic prints on metal of the objects in his room – modern still lifes that symbolise the transience and mass consumption of our time – with geometric patterns from nature, before attacking the whole thing with sharp instruments and chemicals. In doing so, he gave his story depth, creating a triptych that deviates from classical triptychs. Hell and heaven not next to each other, but mixed into a familiar, dreamlike world: that of Bidegain.
