In “Campo de Juego Bélico”, Lady Kunst immerses us in a dreamlike and disturbing landscape that addresses the complex relationship between childhood, violence and lost innocence. The work fuses realist elements with surrealist and symbolic ones to create a powerful visual critique.
In the foreground, the artist is presented with a stern expression, wielding a vibrant red fly swatter as if it were a weapon, a gesture that subverts the futility of an everyday object into an act of confrontation. Next to her, a doll with childlike features, with an inert gaze, lies in a state of vulnerability or abandonment. Prominently at the bottom edge, a large firearm bursts into the scene, magnifying the threat.
In the background, an army of identical childlike figures, carrying toy guns, stands beneath an idyllic blue sky and green landscape. These figures, with their almost anonymous faces, suggest a dehumanized collectivity or the propagation of a warlike ideology from an early age. The juxtaposition of the natural beauty of the landscape with the iconography of war and childhood curtails innocence, generating an unsettling dissonance.
Lady Kunst uses this symbolically charged composition to reflect on the normalization of violence in society, the fragility of childhood in a troubled world, and the insidious nature of indoctrination. The work is a call to awareness of the dangers of a reality where the boundaries between play and aggression, and between the real and the represented, are blurred.