Opening: Saturday 12 July, 12 h
An estuary is the meeting place between the salty seawater and the outward flow of the freshwater river; a place where the counterposed currents merge and generate a strange hybridization, a choreography of forms and forces in movement, which are both unpredictable and in balance at the same time.
The artwork by Carla Tarruella (Barcelona, 1966) emerges from this same tension between control and chance. Driven forward by the mastery of technique and intuition, each of her creations preserves the memory of a unique and unrepeatable gesture, arising from a deep listening to her own body and to the changing environment. The artist explores the limits of painting through the dissolution of the pigments, allowing the climate, light and the specific moment itself to influence the result. Thus, the act of creating becomes a form of active mediation, almost a ritual, in which the gesture in communion with the inertia of the world is transformed into a vehicle of meaning.
Aestuarium turns this confluence between the tide and the river into a metaphor to exhibit a natural dance, a fusion of fluidity and containment that is never reproduced in exactly the same way and which, emerging from uncertainty, projects that artist’s most personal universe.
This exhibition is curated by Natàlia Chocarro, art advisor to the presidency at Fundació Vila Casas, as part of the “Vanishing Points” programme, an initiative drawing on the artists featured in the Foundation’s permanent collection to create new exhibition proposals that are promoted both nationally and internationally.
Palau de l'Abadia, Sant Joan de les Abadesses
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