Opening: September 2nd For some years now, Juliana Vidal (Cuenca, Ecuador, 1993) has been developing a subtle poetics of the imprint - closely related to time and memory - using alginate, a substance that is sensitive to the impression of physical signs. As a collector of bodily forms and traces, of fissures in the urban space, of natural remnants (stones, plant bark, and rain), the artist has produced sculptural series and installations that create a personal bodily and terrestrial orography, or rather a geology of rock mutations, always capturing the materiality of the transitory, of memory and of time itself. From a tactile gaze, Vidal activates certain processual and relational dynamics in an exercise of expanded sculpture to produce disturbing surfaces made up of reliefs and crevices that seem to seek out the spectator's hand. Such is the haptic richness of her pieces. The monochromy, the voids, and the silence in her works - as metonymies of what is absent or lost – reinforce the organic character of her sculptures and endow them with a cryptic eloquence. It is the silence through which the faults, cracks and wounds take shape. There is neither skin, nor stone, nor tree, nor rain here; yet, their doubles, the images of their traces, of their transit, are present. This exhibition brings together recent works by Juliana Vidal and is part of the installation Geographies of Mortality (2018), a prize-winner at the XIV Cuenca Biennial included in the collection of the Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno. Cristóbal Zapata
