Raquel Uendi – Fio

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Raquel Uendi – Fio

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04/10 - 18/10/2014

The power lines that runs through the city cuts our vision and fragments the landscape at the same time they are veins that unite us in a large urban narrative. While they, tear they also tie. In a period which the constant are the marks of trauma and social change, Raquel traces a text within this tangle and indicates possible trajectories between distinct signs.

The photograph ceases to be two-dimensional. It exists creased, folded, torn and overlapped, reassuming its presence in the world by challenging the boundaries between the virtual space of the printed image and the actual exhibition space. As of this three-dimensional editing, its possibilities are investigated in the expanded field, beyond its flatness, veiling and revealing the sensitive of the image. The glass loses its traditional function of protection obtaining another status and also becoming an editing and assembly tool. The artist opposes the control of formal operations to an experimental process, disrupting the constriction of the form with an energy that makes simple elements and basic structures assume uncontrollable routes. Thus we observe the fusion of languages in which the image becomes first abstract and then sculptural.

Raquel’s aesthetics is not a style, but an attitude in which carefully considered gestures prevails over the production of material things. It is a series of strategies that is not perceived as a complete, autonomous, form, but as a recipient, an interstice between images and distinct materials. The artist rejects any monumentality in favor of a fluid and transient practice. After all, if life is ephemeral, why can’t art also be?

“Thread” asserts nothing, but questions everything, from its formal qualities to its place in the world. There are no slogans and manifestos, but a personal strife in which the fragmented forms and torn images discusses less the limits of art than proposes an engagement with life. It is not about the representation of a reality in chaos and dissent, but an actual piece of it, a metonym of our time, insinuating itself into their fibers to string together possible stories.

The unstable binding of pieces and fragments of different narratives in this exhibition acquires a body that rejects a linear meaning. There are no individual readings, but networks of images without semantic content or a clearly identifiable account, only a coupling of emotions and moods in an ambivalent “installative” atmosphere that leans over affective memories and unconscious pulses. They are the loose pages of a story – which is not ours, but could be – in constant “resignification”, where past, present and future are in motion and continuous transformation.

Fernando Ticoulat, curator.