House/Hold

House/Hold

Artists: Mariángeles Blanco, María Marta Fasoli, Sofia Quirno

Curator: Jorgelina Dacil Infer

Gallery: Abrazo Interno Gallery

Exhibition Dates: April 20th - May 11th, 2019

Home is an appropriated space. It does not exist objectively in reality. 

The notion of "home" is a fiction we create out of a need to belong. 

Home is a place where most people have never been to and never will arrive at. Except bellow that patch of mound that has a number you notice  

as you glide past on your way to nowhere anywhere. 

Santu Mofokeng 

Could a hug be home? 

I am fascinated by our capacity to pair elements that could be considered incompatible  separately, making new structures, objects and even functionalities. It is the power of  creativity that allows us to anticipate and imagine dialogues between seemingly  disconnected things, invent new worlds and tame untrodden territories. 

A dripping faucet, an unmade bed, a working fan, freshly-made coffee... scenes, gestures,  sounds that replicate on a daily basis forging an identity, a shapeless altar that yearns to be  domesticated. Whilst appropriating such space that we overtake with rituals and questions,  we unravel our intimacy to the observant look of the objects that exist with us in it.  

From the fragility of a tape drawing on the floor, firm and invisible walls are raised; walls  that contain scenes both universal and abstract. Honest brush strokes, displayed devices  and an experimental atmosphere come together in this exhibition titled House/Hold by  Mariángeles Blanco, Sofía Quirno and María Marta Fasoli. A diagram with three  installations created with absolute independence but intimately connected.  

Sofía Quirno exposes us to the contemplation of those forgotten objects that, although  beautiful and enigmatic, have been adopted by everyday life becoming unnoticed. It  evidences the dynamic relationship that exists between everyone and the whole - changing,  sensitive and inevitable - by calling us to pay attention to the subtle and minimal elements  to reaffirm such space of coexistence. 

María Marta Fasoli presents a series of watercolor drawings, a map of innumerable  gestures that is both personal and intimate. Unlike Penelope, this composition that she knits  has not been created to invoke her beloved one in an immobile and contemplative wait.  Instead, in a constant rhythm, a present continuous of anonymous beings that inhabit the  imaginary of the artist appear and overlap as in a dream: men who merge with others,  plants that grow on heads and girls with rooted arms; a universe of impossible characters,  or not.

Mariángeles Blanco’s installation invites us to think about rupture. Things that do not  happen as planned, desires that become unfeasible, structures that break down and  relationships that turn out to be severed. From a pantone of emotions, Blanco models a  poetic vision of the inevitable, attending to a fortunate or unfortunate becoming in a world of  ever changing relationships. In a code of subtleties, it exposes us to the imperfections of  existence, to cracks and fissures and their sometimes un-programmed results. 

These installations speak of objects, objects speak of habits, habits define lives and lives  offer us the possibility to observe, once more such relationships within the domestic. It is said that the intention of a cohabited home is in our nature and that those who do not  look for it or do not find it live in a chronic longing... 

Jorgelina Dacil Infer