DANIEL JACOBY IN DIALOGUE WITH ZOLAMIAN AT BOMBON+CRISIS
By Álvaro de Benito
The exhibition project created in Madrid by the galleries Bombon Projects (Barcelona) and CRISIS (Lima) presents its second show, building a dialogue between the works of Daniel Jacoby (Lima, Peru, 1985) and Marie Zolamian (Beirut, Lebanon, 1975). The shared setting, conceived specifically for the intersection of artists, exhibitions, and unforeseen connections, takes shape this time with Pink specks of dust in a garden with no sun, a symbiosis of sculptural installation and painting that explores common ground in the human relationship with different environments.
Jacoby distills in his creations a personal reinterpretation of the everyday and its meaning. Inspired by the possibilities afforded by combining the languages of sculpture and performance, the Peruvian artist proposes a creative approach in his production. The works on display, from the series Polvos rosados, allude to that symbolic everyday life, caught between the clichés of economy and society, and land on dystopian visions that reflect the frustrated expectations of contemporary daily life. Through this, the artist also accesses an individual exploration of claimed concepts of belonging and spirituality.
For her part, Marie Zolamian takes up in Le jardin sans soleil the references of classical Eastern and Western art to reinvent them in a demonstration of the relativization of ideas of affiliation and belonging. Her proposal conceives of a dreamlike terrain in which an imaginary is created to address the human relationship with nature, while not overlooking the contradictions between the individual and the collective, or between spatial and temporal criteria.
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Marie Zolamian. Avoir le boulard, 2023
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Marie Zolamian. Aporie, 2024
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Daniel Jacoby. The Light Doesn't Need the Lamp More than Twister Needs a Color-Blind, 2019
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Daniel Jacoby. The Light Doesn't Need the Lamp More than the Desert Needs a Submarine, 2019
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Daniel Jacoby. The Light Doesn't Need the Lamp More than a Pet́anque Court Needs a Dog, 2019
Pink specks of dust in a garden with no sun. Marie Zolamian, Daniel Jacoby can be seen until October 31 at Bombon+CRISIS, Madera 33, Madrid (Spain).
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