ESPACIO LALITHO, CENTRAL DE ABASTOS, OAXACA / 2021
Division, union, empty, full: gestures of arming or disarming. Times are constantly assembled and disarmed, some of them remain unfinished. Currently everything seems to be falling apart, but at the same time another entity is being built, after the isolation that divides us, but equally unified in different ways, is the outside. I wonder if I'll be able to catch the sun again with the corner of my vision? It must be recognized that within our space there is a window, a door, an entrance, but also an exit.
The fact of the exterior complements us, going out to explore, learn, teach, discover. Faced with the threat of losing our lives due to a virus that leads to a disease, we wait captive with desperation, with the constant question of when we will be able to experience the outside again, without really valuing the inside. We are born with our interior, our thought and being. The outside has always been there, and always will be.
There is a permanent duality. The interior protects us, allows us to introspect and be with the people we love most, a refuge. The meeting of the balance between both: interior and exterior gives us a preparation for times like these. People who are abroad all the time may have difficulty recognizing "home" and family, while people who are in a comfort zone all the time, in their "shelter" will have difficulty seeing the mountain and go out to explore to find a "paradise", enjoy in company or even oneself.
Art residences provide different kinds of encounters, I am grateful to be able to live the displacement of time that gives life, calm and the change of issues that when making accounts are complemented in each residence along intimate searches. The results do not reach the "end" of the residence if we want to call it that way, some may not have an end, and others continue. Here is the sample of what the practice of experience leaves to the act and knowing that behind the plane there is a mountain.
- Juan Carlos Guerrerosantos, 2020
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