Michelle Sitton

Estudio Marte presents the exhibition Four-Legged House by Michelle Sitton.

Four-Legged House:

The gallery space - a place that was and remains a house - proves to be the axis on which Michelle Sitton's series of paintings unfolds, exploring intimacy, memories and origin from the representation of the domestic. To establish a house is to establish a world.

With the curatorial accompaniment of Daniela Terroba and the text intervention of Ximena Prieto.

It is enough to look to be inside. Once here, the walls gradually begin to curve to envelop me in its atmosphere and time is already different. The distance between one room and the other becomes indecipherable, it seems that this is how memories live, there are things that appear more clearly and there are some that exist in a distant and blurred way.

Everything inhabits the house at the same time.

Everything inhabits it from a panoptic gaze that allows us to contemplate each space that unfolds a memory, a sensation, a texture. What is the house if not the accumulation of moments? Those silent and long corridors, slow transitions between one room and the next, the legs of the chairs undulating at their edges to become doll supports or the glow of the dining table that repeatedly traces the path of the palm of my hand from one end to the other. The living room rug at five years old, soft support for my body alone, lying down, waiting to hear the door open. Mirrors, my face at thirteen - awkward, puffy and doubtful. Mirrors, seventeen, my navel exposed and my closet mixed with foreign clothes for a Friday, candlelight coloring my grandmother's hands, long handles opening doors, video games, windows with still images I didn't choose wrapped in baroque frames.

Sleeping beds, mysterious, that expand and lengthen like the time of dreams and sex, three dogs or just one dog being three, forks, spoons, crystal chandeliers. In here, time restores what the house accumulates and this four-legged house is one more object (always changing) that is held with the gaze and displays in every corner the time that was, is and will continue to be until the memory is exhausted.

— Daniela Terroba

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