“Debris is a separate problem. To avoid tripping and getting hurt, you have to learn to walk on invisible paths… The worst of all are the ruins, and you have to be very skillful to avoid them.”
In the Country of Last Things, Paul Auster
The ruin as a labyrinth, memory and strength. It is difficult not to think negatively when talking about ruins as happens in “In the Country of Last Things” where everything, absolutely everything is devastated. It is quite easy to think of something like that, but a ruin can also be a past memory that is increasingly difficult to access due to the rubble that accumulates, or a construction whose foundations are made of feathers and to which collapse is the only way to redemption. Here, in this exhibition we are going to find the different points of view of this concept linked to textile art and that will serve as a common thread for the invited artists to invite us to explore a landscape “in ruins”.
María Ortega (Madrid, Spain, 1967) wants us to reflect on the personal walls and barriers that each person establishes in their own environment and on their projection and consequences in the society in which we live. Not wanting to be “A Brick in the Wall” is an analysis of a metaphor of the causes that lead to delimiting and surrounding our personal space and the responsibility and influence of those intimate and personal walls, in the creation of clichés, stereotypes, prejudices. The construction of this work reflects a labyrinth-like installation, whose brick walls end up destroyed.
On the other hand, Karen Sandoval (Cali, Colombia, 1987) investigates the identity of the migrant subject and his world made up of fragmented memories, of a past that once again returns us to the idea of a ruin that we can barely revisit. Through these pieces, she aims to show an imaginary based on female characters of her family, in which she tries to compile their memories and experiences, in order to understand her own roots and culture. The artist’s creation process has been linked to the lyrics of a song titled “Psyque”, which repeatedly appears in fragments throughout the different pieces that serve the artist to trace a path and a dialogue between them.
Finally, Estefanía Martín Sáenz (Bilbao, Spain, 1982) tells us about the strength of what remains after the collapse. How through ruins a stronger structure can be rebuilt, although sometimes violently. To do this he has used the drawings of the printed fabrics which, symbolically, are the ruins with which he builds a new drawing pattern. A drawing that inevitably tries to be different but remains the same as the previous one.
Curated by Estefanía Martín Sáenz.
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