MARQ, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Three person exhibition with Mariangeles Blanco and Maria Marta Fasoli
Curated by Jorgelina Dacil
This show was originally done at The Clemente, NY in April 2019 and later itinerated to MARQ, Buenos Aires in August 2019
REPULGUE
In both exhibitions we had a live drawing and printing one night event where we invited the visitors to share the process and pick up a piece to take home.
HOUSE/HOLD
Home is an appropriated space. It does not exist objectively in reality. The notion of "home" is a fiction we create out of a need to belong. Home is place where most people have never been to and never will arrive at. Except bellow that patch of mound that has a number you notice as you glide past on your way to nowhere anywhere.
Santu Mofokeng
Could a hug be home?
I am fascinated by our capacity to pair elements that could be considered incompatible separately, making new structures, objects and even functionalities. It is the power of creativity that allows us to anticipate and imagine dialogues between seemingly disconnected things , invent new worlds and tame untrodden territories.
A dripping faucet, an unmade bed, a working fan, freshly-made coffee... scenes, gestures, sounds that replicate on a daily basis forging an identity, a shapeless altar that yearns to be domesticated. Whilst appropriating such space that we overtake with rituals and questions, we unravel our intimacy to the observant look of the objects that exist with us in it.
From the fragility of a tape drawing on the floor, firm and invisible walls are raised; walls that contain scenes both universal and abstract. Honest brush strokes, displayed devices and an experimental atmosphere come together in this exhibition titled House/Hold by Mariángeles Blanco, Sofía Quirno and María Marta Fasoli. A diagram with three installations created with absolute independence but intimately connected.
Sofía Quirno exposes us to the contemplation of those forgotten objects that, although beautiful and enigmatic, have been adopted by everyday life becoming unnoticed. It evidences the dynamic relationship that exists between everyone and the whole - changing, sensitive and inevitable - by calling us to pay attention to the subtle and minimal elements to reaffirm such space of coexistence.
María Marta Fasoli presents a series of watercolor drawings, a map of innumerable gestures that is both personal and intimate. Unlike Penelope, this composition that she knits has not been created to invoke her beloved one in an immobile and contemplative wait. Instead, in a constant rhythm, a present continuous of anonymous beings that inhabit the imaginary of the artist appear and overlap as in a dream: men who merge with others, plants that grow on heads and girls with rooted arms; a universe of impossible characters, or not.
Mariángeles Blanco’s installation invites us to think about rupture. Things that do not happen as planned, desires that become unfeasible, structures that break down and relationships that turn out to be severed. From a pantone of emotions, Blanco models a poetic vision of the inevitable, attending to a fortunate or unfortunate becoming in a world of ever changing relationships. In a code of subtleties, it exposes us to the imperfections of existence, to cracks and fissures and their sometimes un-programmed results.
These installations speak of objects, objects speak of habits, habits define lives and lives offer us the possibility to observe, once more such relationships within the domestic.
It is said that the intention of a cohabited home is in our nature and that those who do not look for it or do not find it live in a chronic longing...
Jorgelina Dacil Infer
HOUSE/HOLD
Home is an appropriated space. It does not exist objectively in reality. The notion of "home" is a fiction we create out of a need to belong. Home is place where most people have never been to and never will arrive at. Except bellow that patch of mound that has a number you notice as you glide past on your way to nowhere anywhere.
Santu Mofokeng
¿Donde está la intimidad?
¿Puede un abrazo ser nuestro hogar?
Siempre pensé que era maravilloso cómo el hombre puede reunir elementos que por separado son inconsistentes para crear nuevas estructuras, objetos y funcionalidades. Ese poder creador y cualidad de anticipar diálogos y sinergias de elementos inconexos, crear nuevos mundos, abrir horizontes y domesticar territorios intransitados.
Una canilla que gotea, la cama sin tender, el ventilador encendido, el café recién hecho... escenas, gestos, sonidos, que se repiten día a día y van dando cuerpo a una identidad, a un altar sin forma que busca ser domesticado. Poder apropiarse de ese altar, de ese espacio que insistentemente recorremos con rituales, presencias y problemáticas que nos proponen desnudar nuestra intimidad ante la única mirada de los objetos que lo habitan.
Con la fragilidad de un dibujo en cinta de papel al piso, se levantan firmes paredes invisibles que nos sugieren un espacio ocupado por escenas tan universales como abstractas.
Trazos francos, dispositivos expuestos y una atmosfera experimental, confluyen en la exposición House/Hold de Mariángeles Blanco, Sofía Quirno y María Marta Fasoli.
Un diagrama de tres instalaciones creadas con absoluta independencia, pero íntimamente conectados por referencias cruzadas que cargan de tensión el recorrido.
La instalación de Sofía Quirno nos expone la contemplación olvidada de esos objetos que, aun bellos y enigmáticos, han sido adoptados por la cotidianeidad y son ahora evitados por las miradas antes curiosas. Pone en evidencia ese diálogo natural y dinámico que existe entre todos y lo otro, un vínculo cambiante, sensible e inevitable. Es un llamado de atención a la presencia sutil y mínima de todos y cada uno de los elementos en el espacio de convivencia.
María Marta Fasoli presenta una cama, un vacío e innumerables gestos en un mapa tan personal como íntimo. Nos muestra un tejido que, al revés que Penélope, no ha sido creado invocando al ser amado en espera inmóvil y contemplativa. Las sábanas de Fasoli nos hablan de presente continuo, de un universo de seres anónimos que habitan los sueños: hombres que se funden con otros, plantas que crecen en cabezas y niñas con brazos de raíces. Un universo de imágenes tan ricas como únicas en un lecho de vida, intimidad, y símbolos.
El ambiente de Mariángeles Blanco nos remitiría a un espacio zen, con imágenes de espejos de agua en movimiento y cuencos blancos... pero lejos de esto, Blanco propone un registro de la interferencia. Vidrios empañados que no dejan ver, el sonido de una gota de agua que cae, una pava silbando. Aconteceres que inevitablemente interfieren cualquier intensión de abstracción y nos obligan a estar presentes en las imperfecciones del aquí y sus inquietantes movimientos desprogramados.
Instalaciones que hablan de objetos, objetos que hablan de usos, usos que hablan de vidas y vidas que nos proponen observar las relaciones entre todos los elementos de nuestro entorno doméstico.
Dicen que la intención de un hogar cohabitado está en nuestra naturaleza, que el que no lo busca o no lo encuentra vive en una añoranza crónica...
Jorgelina Dacil Infer