Anna Irina Russell’s (Barcelona, 1993) work is oriented towards sculpture and installation as a place from which to model other forms of language, body and life. Based on a great respect for the expressive capacity of the material, in recent years she has focused her research on experimentation with soft and inflatable materials and through her touch she finds expression for that which encounters no place in the word, nor even in the image: overflow, contagion, asphyxiation; that which exists, yet perhaps does not.
This exhibition displays Anna Irina Russell’s body of work related to breathing. Understood as a basic gesture to consider the contact with both the other and with oneself, breathing – like language – is noticeable only by its absence. Only when we lack words, when we find ourselves devoid of inspiration, do we remember our constitutive vulnerability. Through this exhibition, conceived as a lung that expands and lives with each intake of un/known air, the museum becomes that organism that simultaneously embodies and makes visible the precariousness of breathing as well as offering us a space to oxygenate ourselves.
What does it do in an atmosphere yearning for poetry? How can we capture the dream of synchronized breathing? What can a lung do within a lung within a lung… a lung of lungs, an archive of breaths?
© Roberto Ruiz
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