Opening: Friday, August 22th, 8 p.m This exhibition is based on the seemingly paradoxical idea that the Earth - with all its surface features, shape and composition - can resemble the sky: that elusive, apparently perfectly arranged space which we always observe from afar. This analogy is not necessarily indicative of a mimetic dimension, but rather an approach to how we learn to perceive nearby matter and time as part of the same constellation that we see in the distance. References to the cosmos manifest in the mundane through archives, streets, prints, objects and everyday elements. Thus, analogies are drawn in which fragmented surfaces, though observable, render the distant tactile and corporeal. The selected pieces encourage us to view time and matter as malleable elements, presenting them as concomitant effects of the same existence. Just as light - that stream of invisible particles which enables us to measure remote distances - is absorbed by luminous tubes, photographs, erroneous archives and photocopies, bodies - whether celestial, human or constructed - appear in circular forms and common actions which leave traces of their movements, orbits and locations. In contrast to the contemporary pace of information, performance and immediacy, this space prioritises slowness, patience and memory - a perceptual effect that we experience when we look at the sky, that map made of nothing but elapsed time. That moment of suspended contemplation turns analogy into an exercise in perception — a way of reconnecting with the Earth.
Image: Ana Bidart, Sala de Nado