Meet Damián Comas

By Canvas Rebel.

Damián Comas.

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Damián Comas. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Damián, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today. Can you talk to us about what pushes you to start every new artistic project?

Throughout my artistic life I have tried to make my work meaningful. That is my starting point; to say or create or command something that has a profound value; that contributes from the sharpness of a different perception. Works that help us to look at or understand a certain aspect from a new angle. Obviously, I have failed countless times and, for the same reason, I have been right a few times. I am a filmmaker and a writer who was trained in the visual arts, specifically in stone sculpture and, many times, I still understand my work from the stone, as strange as it may seem.

First of all, I like to think of each of my works as a pebble. Being then the “thug” who throws a pebble in a certain direction and with it, manages to alter or stop reality for an instant. Like the stone that breaks the glass of a window that no one had cleaned in years and with it, a new landscape, a new horizon, that had been completely forgotten, appears. Or the small stone that falls into the engine of an immense machine and causes an entire factory to stop working; so that each worker begins to ask himself, what is his function if the machine of the world stops for a day? Or the pebble that simply throws to the ground a porcelain vase that had always been there and, suddenly, its emptiness or absence detonates an infinity of questions about what we accept as absolute norms, rules, laws, values or customs.

I believe that only in this way, when we affect reality, a new reading of it begins, where without knowing why or how, almost suddenly, a work has opened our eyes and the world is presented in a different way.