UNTIL SUNDAY 12/4
VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
Color floods the installation created by Andrea Canepa specifically for IVAM. Color and the notion of play, represented by giant meccano figures. And he does it for a very specific reason.: Canepa says that in his artistic residency in Puerto Rico he learned that enjoyment is political, because he rebels against power, always serious, gray and minimal. And the color and the game are the opposite, pure enjoyment. Just like the popular and the traditional, a possible form of resistance. Following this maxim, the Peruvian artist has designed the installation Between the deep and the distant, taking as a starting point the ideas of the book The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram, American ecologist and philosopher who argued that geography is temporal, that time is inscribed in the landscape. According to his theory, The past and the future coexist in the present and are spatially situated: the past inside things (the earth, the bodies, the corals, the trees…), covered in layers, and the future on the horizon line, that kind of threshold that unites what surrounds us with that beyond that we never reach.
Canepa has represented the past on the ground floor of the room, through fabrics, tierra, hanging threads, veils and folds that simulate roots, caves, tree rings or a snake—linked to the underworld in many cultures—emerging from the earth. Going up the stairs, after passing through hanging threads that can refer to the mountains or the open legs of a woman in labor, you will find the sober horizon that embraces the entire upper floor. This horizon evokes the system of ceques of the pre-Columbian Andean world, a network of sacred lines that started from the center of the city and extended radially towards the horizon, connecting the different huacas, sacred places and elements. The interventions that Canepa is incorporating into its horizon line would represent these huacas like time stamps. S.M.
