The exhibition presents the
result of a collaboration between Ariadna Guiteras and Lena Heubusch within the
framework of project Ruta 234. Through a series of collective intra-actions, the project attempts to overcome dichotomies
between village-city
- between the rural and the industrial - proposing a
transversal body of work that disrupts traditional narrativizations of
the relation between nature and culture. How can we
understand one of the least populous areas of
Europe as a body that exists as the sum of its realities and particularities –
an organism reactive to the politics, desires and needs of all its inhabiting
entities.
Sound installation Voz piedra attempts to break with a static
and binary logic through the story of a situated voice; one that speaks through
multiple subjectivities and narrativizes the experience of a journey that runs
through a body that is the sum of a multitude of other voices. What we find
narrated is a fragmented, de-territorialized and amplified history that invites
us to look againat the environment of rural Spain as a
site of political signification.
Tocar
el pueblo gives a title both to the exhibition and to a series of video-actions that
hybridize the gestural, the sensual and the affective. When the village is
touched, how close are we to it? The German term Taktgefühl reminds us that the sense of touch not only allows
organisms to perceive the qualities of objects but also to approach their
material-affective dimension from the dynamics of mutual care. The supporting
and caressing of stone or of lichen are practices that at the same time
underline a need to strengthen the transmission of non-traditional forms of knowledge.
Thinking a territory from a
material perspective means understanding that its political geology is made up
of diverse temporalities, displacements and multiple knowledges. Formulated as
a sculptural image, the installation Noventa
y dos adobas de una casa que se cae, allows us to observe processes of
destruction, material condensation and collective transformation from the
remains of an adobe ruin. Here we
find residues of a human and non-human architecture, which becomes a modern
topography laminated by technology. Projecting a space for possible future
realities, each adoba contains an
imprint of the bodies of those who passed through other villages before.