Double Standard 1, 2023 brings together a group of small figures that appear to emerge from different moments in cultural history, recalling ritual objects, sculptures, and anthropomorphic representations. Arranged in an almost taxonomic structure, the forms vary in scale, posture, color, and treatment, creating a visual inventory of possible identities. The figurative drawing takes on an archaeological dimension here: each figure functions as an individual sign while also belonging to a larger collection. Bonachea transforms this accumulation into a reflection on how images survive, shift in meaning, and continue to shape our perception of the body, culture, and the past.
 
The more transcendental the representation, the more it tends to evoke it through its prodigies. Such is the case of the Double standard series in the words of the artist "It is a process of visual archeology through a search for human representations conditioned by their ritual, aesthetic or utilitarian meaning where a resignification of beauty patterns is proposed, a game with female representation with its multiple meanings, functions and forms”
James Bonachea combines the same motif separated by different forms of representation. The double standard announces a double reading of the original meaning of an image, a polysemic game of signifiers. Doble standard's proposal is an artisan of artisans: it summarizes the wisdom of concretism in time through the human figure and the object as a poetic expression of the time in which Bonachea's works take place.
 
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