Exhibition review by Irina Ideas

At first there was light, then, there was a word and it gradually turned into a line which suddenly became a story. A story of the universes that we constantly experience but rarely are able to identify, it is not just one unified universe but many, these universes somehow sneak on us, disappear and reappear in the constant breathing in and breathing out of life. Susana and Natalia managed to capture the moments in time of just these almost invisible universes combining the stories, moments of disconnected and yet essential elements that construct the reality of now. Why are these moments almost invisible one might ask, is it the initial awkwardness that makes them invisible to our consciousness that expects only the expected, the reality constructed according to the wishes of the experiencer?  

Colossal lions seemingly belonging to the otherworldly realm greet us, taking away the spirits that walk the trail we make. Gradually the concept of trail disappears as the gravity is twisting and turning all the objects that we are all too comfortable to place in a box of expectations and we go forward into the world of possibilities and impossibilities, bridging the gap somehow.

Susana and Natalia are challenging the concept of our all too comfortable reality, bringing together the ghosts of the past, guarding our present and future, but at the same time letting in the invisible powers to play around with our anthologies, books, powers of storytelling. A book can tell a thousand words with just a few lines, and that is exactly what was told, the line between a sculpture, a painting, a word got blurred and we are left before a mirror a word represents, to face our demons even though we guard every moment of our reality with our individual lions from the times past.

The body of work presented in here is actually exploring this construct in the greater depth, with the touch of Eastern mythology and belief systems that span several centuries to the Calvino’s elegant imaginatorium, these seemingly invisible and yet crucial elements make us experience and we only become aware of them briefly and rarely. We sometimes choose to ignore them because our consciousness seeks comfort, they are like ghosts that pass by the guardian lions (our consciousness) and play with the world of stories. Stories are the most primordial drops of imagination and sometimes it feels as if we have exhausted them all, the combinatorics of so many thoughts, so many centuries of transformation echoing the times they were made in, but, not today! Stories today lead us to the times from the past and present as they incorporate our lives, a lion from the past, a guardian playing in the subconscious mind as we play with it, trying to find something beyond. This beyond is a question mark unique to each of us and the pieces make us wonder about the universe one step further into the world, at the same time one step closer to ourselves as we discover, wonder, us wanderers… into the infinite.