Microsoft Word - Jaime Coolabah Lua Ruiz


Coolabah, Vol.2, 2009, ISSN 1988-5946 Observatori: Centre d’Estudis Australians, 

Australian Studies Centre, Universitat de Barcelona 

 

 

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Lua Ruiz –Gimenez Coderch 

 

Born 1982 in Iquitos, Perú  

 

 Currently studying, B.A. Fine Arts , University of Barcelona  

 2004 She obtained sculpture degree at  the Escola Massana, Barcelona  

 She has exhibited her work in group exhibitions in Barcelona, Italy, and the 

Netherlands. 

 

   
Carrara marble mixed with white wax. 

 

Remains of the lived. 

Memory is some precious material we try to retain with fragile structures. On the ruins 

of all the rest, those provisional constructs of memory are to become true, are to 

become history. However, even history is a thought to be sustained throughout time. We 

must patiently work on it, even at the risk of eroding and blunting its scarce body. From 

wax to stone, that is the process when “that translucent alabaster of our memories”, in 

the words of the master of memory Marcel Proust, is to crystallize in a myth. So, as time 

passes by, myth is what is left standing, like a magnificent sacred relic, almost empty 

but sustaining the remains of the lived.