By (re)visiting some works by the multidisciplinary artist Mayte Vieta – installations and photographs captured during different creative moments – we soon become aware that the landscapes, which are embraced by a woman’s naked body, contain suspended time. But what is it, we wonder, that makes these 'non-places' of silence and stillness something that transcends and overwhelms us? Aren't these landscapes a representation of a moment that has ceased to belong to us in order to merge with the universe? In this regard, the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard warned us in his essay Intuition of the Instant, that the instant becomes a kind of silent voice, an inextensive aesthetic space that allows us to be and to cease to be, to ascend without ceasing to walk, an impenetrable location from which this poetic instant emerges.
This exhibition, the first in a series of collaborations with the Fundació Iluro and curated by Natàlia Chocarro, presents fifteen artworks on identity and landscape.
Fundació Iluro, Mataró
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