Una(s) cierta(s) mirada(s) para un(os) cierto(s) relato(s)

Galería Gobernador presents Una(s) cierta(s) mirada(s) para un(os) cierto(s) relato(s), a group exhibition curated by Tania Ragasol.

It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories, it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties together. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.

—Donna Haraway

The gathering of the work of these five artists can be understood as a constellar cartography of practices, investigations, and ways of looking. A porous field of resonances that makes visible lines of inquiry and strategies for approaching and making sense of the world we inhabit, a reflection on how ways of observing, narrating, and thinking produce worlds. Marianna Dellekamp, María Ezcurra, Bárbara Foulkes, Blanca González, and Kara Rooney share an interdisciplinary practice centered on the study of everyday objects, resignified as devices for critical and poetic reflection around memory, the passage of time, and our relationship —and responsibility— toward our surroundings. Their works articulate perspectives that are as personal as they are collective in order to question social constructions of identity and belonging.

While each artist works through specific and personal languages and concerns, they coincide in their interest in the analysis, documentation, and reordering of the systems that determine human experience, both material and symbolic. Their practices converge in an investigative, archival, and process-based approach toward what remains and what becomes invisible, what persists and what erodes until it fades away.

Whether through the study of natural territory or the urban environment (González, Rooney), the reinterpretation of domestic elements (Ezcurra), the human-machine relationship (Foulkes), or the accumulation, classification, and reconfiguration of collections (Dellekamp), the projects brought together in this exhibition conceive their objects of study as containers of memory and evidence of cultural, affective, and historical dynamics and processes, susceptible in turn to being questioned and transformed into other narratives —perhaps— more hopeful ones.

Artists: Marianna Dellekamp, María Ezcurra, Bárbara Foulkes, Blanca González and Kara Rooney.

—Tania Ragasol