Paola Ávalos

Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima invites you to the exhibition Silencios sonoros, featuring the work of Paola Ávalos, who joins the new cycle of exhibitions: Formas de nombrar.

"It must be said that silence in stillness is very different from silence in movement."

Pablo d'Ors in the Biography of silence.

Encaustic is a technique rarely explored and for many centuries fell into disuse, it is undoubtedly one of the oldest registered methods of painting. Reviving it turns painting back into an alchemist and domestic experience, since encaustic painting requires slow cooking pots, electric frying pans, grills, irons, blowtorches and wax. This is the technique that Paola Ávalos chose to investigate the aesthetic possibilities of silence, the result of a dialogue with the Museo de las Artes de Guadalajara, where she carried out a two-month residency. In this residency, she developed an investigation that culminated in a sonorous archeology as a possibility of representation. What is it to inhabit space if not to listen to its pauses and echoes, its unfathomable presence, to feel the depth and the forms in which it presents itself to our perception. What is proper of silence? Its absence. The awareness that silence can only be represented as a monochromatic vestige is what we can feel, see and hear in the room now.

Sound composition by Abigail Vásquez.

— Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima