1931

The image depicted by Maupal, recognise a great figure of the past, such as Salvador Dali. Nevertheless, the figure that the artist portrays, hold the face of his grandmother Liliana. Through this figure, he conveys his interest in life through the transcendence of time. The choice of the artwork title 1931 initially seem generic and cold like numbers can be, however it actually serve as a documentation of Maupal’s attention to the passage of time and to the material persistence of memory in people’s lives. It is not a coincidence that the title reminds to the year 1931, with a portrait of Liliana, wearing Salvador Dalí’s distinctive moustaches on the anniversary of his famous painting The Persistence of Memory. Maupal’s artwork take inspiration from the concept of relativity and subjectivity of time. In fact, like Dali’s painting, for Maupal time cannot be measured in the same way for everyone, because time itself, influences and leaves its marks on all of us in different ways.