Artist Iván Perera, Self-knowledge, edition 1 of 1. In the work Self-Knowledge I am interested in revealing our fragility, through the relationship of visual tension that is created between the head of the man who is not inside the composition and the two skulls he holds. I also intend to explore the idea of self-consciousness, the human being who thinks of himself trying to find a meaning to his life, an obsession as old as humanity itself. The two skulls embody binary pairs that in this case are represented as part of a whole, life and death, light and darkness, existence and non-existence are part of an infinite cycle in which one begins the other. In the painting, one skull looks at the subject holding it and the other looks at the viewer. They seem to question the first and invite a reflection about time and the existence of those who observe the image.