Ways of inhabiting, 2021
Ways of inhabiting reflects on the possibility of building a community and a country. In this sense, based on a structural element such as a scaffold, a project is conceived were “Columns”, “Shadows” and “Modules” are presented, seeking to show the difficulty we face to build a communal project, given the fragility of the structures that support us.
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“(...) Establishing a dialogue with reproduction, Micaela Aljovín presents a matrix piece —in the form of a scaffold— which will be the basis for the construction of a discourse that reveals fragility and puts the apparently solid in crisis. In a staging that recalls the modules that were played with in childhood, five columns arranged symmetrically in the exhibition space simulate emerging from the floor through the ceiling. Without losing their playful character, it uses a module —which is none other than the reproduction of the matrix piece on a smaller scale— to record the projection of its moving shadow. The result is a series of 30 silkscreen prints that highlight the impossibility of building from individuality, while, at the same time, inviting the visitor to build a possibility (...)”.
Luisa Fernanda Lindo, Ways of inhabiting Curator
Excerpt from curatorial text.
