Pepita Lumier. Stew, 7
In his second exhibition at the Pepita Lumier gallery, Nuria Riaza leave the world of dreams to dig into memory. In forgetfulness rather. In The memory of the stones, The artist reminds us in a very poetic way – with embroidery thread and her inseparable blue pen – that hundreds of Spaniards remain forgotten in common graves. scattered throughout the peninsula and that the women, both at home and with a rifle in hand, They play a fundamental role in wars. The exhibition is dotted with faces erased with acrylic and objects (chairs, vases…) that are no longer there to represent the absence, of dried flowers upside down that symbolize oblivion. Although initially the content was going to be more familiar (We find portraits of the artist's great-grandparents who died in Annual and the Civil War, a quince box and a jewelry box from her great-grandmothers…), ended up opening the lens, For example, through a geological map of Spain that marks with embroidery where the civil war mass graves that remain to be opened are located and links them to the most typical mineral of that area. Or with the tribute to the most illustrious of all the disappeared, Federico García Lorca, through his premonitory play So five years go by. With visual poetics and, also daring with the textual (“I can't fit in this time all the wait I poured out for you”), Nuria Riaza has a goal: to talk again about a topic that we have forgotten even if we step on it. S.M.
