Javier Peláez | Pablo Rasgado | Iván Trueta

Saenger Galería presents Derrumbe –with works by Javier Peláez, Pablo Rasgado and Iván Trueta– at Casa Limantour, curated by Eduardo Luque y Christian Barragán.

The name of the exhibition is also the discursive ground on which two different notions of “collapse” are based: one as ruin or collapse, and the other as a structural possibility. When combined, “collapse” becomes not only the direct action that affects the physical space, altering it, but also implies breaking down and overthrowing the traditional hierarchy between the final state of a work and the process that led to that condition. “Derrumbe” thus rehearses a system between the concrete that is exposed (both the works and the house that hosts them) and the latent that the interventions and the weft of relationships between artists and audiences propitiate with the environment and the context of the event.

In this sense, the exhibited works adopt different statuses: from fragments and studies, to residues and formally completed objects. At the same time, each work or gesture functions as architectural coves; that is, as brief openings in the surface of a discourse that allow us to observe what lies beneath, in the manner of an active archeology of the artistic exercise that favors the recovery of forgotten practices, to make visible searches that were at rest and to resonate the echo of ephemeral works. In this same process, a material common to the three artists is dust: coal dust or graphite dust, everyday and domestic dust, dust due to the passing of time and time transfigured into dust; in any circumstance, this element acts in “Derrumbe” as an agent. In this same process, a material common to all three artists is dust: coal dust or graphite dust, everyday and domestic dust, dust due to the passing of time and time transfigured into dust; in any circumstance, this element acts in “Derrumbe” as a symbolic and physical agent. It is both a material of creation, as in the drawing, and a vestige of erosion, as in the sculpture. And although its presence is diffuse, it is also capable of crossing the exhibition space and spreading its fine matter around. Dust dirties, but it also links, it is pollution, and its imprint traces a plane where it is possible to appreciate the different crossroads, junctions, paths and detours that the works and artists congregate.

Ultimately, “Derrumbe” proposes an open territory where forms of collaboration and reflection are tested in reciprocity around an essential principle, space. Specifically, the inhabited space; the one that emerged with the dolmen and that contemplates from its construction to its own fall. In synchrony, the Saenger-Limantour program is, in itself, a porous curatorial structure, in constant reconfiguration.

–Eduardo Luque y Christian Barragán