Love 1962

Marisol Escobar’s sculpture presents us with a fragmented face rendered in stone, violated by the intrusive presence of a Coca-Cola bottle. This is the visual metaphor for the invasion of the body and spirit. The ancient motif of dismemberment and fragmentation, often linked to Dionysian rituals, reappears here. We must consider how a face, once the vessel of expression and identity, is desecrated by a symbol of globalized desire. The bottle, an emblem of modern consumerism, brutally penetrates the face, becoming an object of defilement. We might recall the severed heads of antiquity, objects of power and fear, now replaced by a contemporary artifact thrusting itself into our collective unconscious. It’s as if this image is a powerful statement of the tensions between the self and the overpowering forces of modern life. The cycle continues, with consumerism cast as the aggressor in a timeless drama. The symbol of the body is exploited, reborn through the art of Marisol.