Mandragora, 2023 transforms a botanical form into an almost anthropomorphic presence positioned between natural history and ritual imagery. The composition contrasts green foliage and pale flowers with a root that suggests the human body, creating a hybrid figure that seems to emerge from an ancient imaginary. The tension between botanical precision and implied anatomy gives this figurative drawing an intriguing symbolic quality. Bonachea uses the recognizable mandrake form to shift it into another field of meaning, where nature, the body, and cultural memory intersect. The work develops a distinctive presence by balancing observation, myth, and visual reinterpretation.
 
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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