INAUGURAL SHOW AT LÍQUIDO - INVENTORY 17: PHOTOGRAPHS THAT ARE ALREADY OF ANYONE
LÍQUIDO is a new traveling gallery that promotes the work of young and emerging artists from Latin America with international projection. On this occasion, the exhibition features works by Elián Stolarsky at the Posada Ayana of José Ignacio.
Stolarsky investigates images related to 20th century war and migration, which she later transforms into abstract hand-sewn textiles. The works thus incite a slowed reading of photography - different from what we are used to today. These works challenge our relationship with images and their role in memory and identity construction. Through an abstraction built with scraps of cloth, Stolarsky seems to question: is it photography that informs our identity, or is it us who project ourselves into photography?
“My artistic work revolves around the relationship between memory, migration and history. How history is a construction based on choices, how migration is relative to the human being and modifies social relationships, and how memory exists to relate and be able to link from a human side. These concerns that arose from my own family history crossed by migrations, wars and therefore a lot of violence, have led me to become an artist and stand from a creative and transformative side tin order o understand myself as a social being in this context also characterized by change, immediacy, migratory movements and violence.”, says Elián.
Experimenting with different artistic techniques - some more traditional and others contemporary - Elián explores the limits, the extremes and the cuts that exist between living history, shaping it, remembering it and/or forgetting it. The details; memories; the roots; the stitches.
