Adrián White

Saenger Galería presents Seguir el paso al caminar de las cosas by Adrián White.

An image of time, the internal time, which records the happening of things, from the trace of their appearance to the trail of their disappearance. An inner image of the present: both the intimacy of its duration and the density due to the accumulation of events. A specter of presence, but not absence, but its transparency, the volatile nature of things. A suspended image of time passing. The interior time, which registers the friction and transference of things. An image and its dissolution: keeping pace with the passing of things. Adrian White works with some simple and common materials: graphite and charcoal in powder and stick presentations, dissolved and undissolved white acrylic, wood, breath, time, especially time, and little else. He is interested in the properties of the material he employs, such as the containment and dispersion potential of an accumulation of powdered charcoal contained in the bowl of his hand that he suddenly spreads into the air with his breath. He is intrigued by the indefiniteness of the gesture, as well as the strangeness obtained by the sum of countless layers of graphite and white acrylic superimposed through geometric and organic stencils. Adrian White meditates on the indeterminacy of a thought, and with severe patience he digs into the geology of each image thus obtained. He recalls Szymborska and her knocking on the door of a stone: It's me, let me in / I want to penetrate inside you, / take a look, / breathe you in.

Adrian White's work is modest and rigorous. While he shies away from the protagonist din of color, he resorts to the friction that the achromatic palimpsest of whites and grays propitiates in the gaze, an optical alteration in which planes, marks and transparencies merge densely. His drawings respond to the notion of landscape in relation to the body, the gaze and silence, putting in tension the experience with the image. His work is, simultaneously, the saturation of temporalities gathered during the creative process, and the emptying of all chronological order, with no starting point or end point.

Only the latency of stages in the becoming of an image, as evidenced by the residues and traces left behind by the enterprise of following the course of the happening of things.

–Christian Barragán