LAMAS AT THE GOMA: SYMBIOSIS BETWEEN ARTIFICE AND ORGANIC
The work Nicolás Lamas (Lima, Peru, 1980) presents at The Goma Galery in his solo show Flujos atemporales/sedimentos cognitivos is circumscribed to his way of understanding relationships in a network of knowledge that involves the worlds of the natural and the cultural. Both spheres are the ones that lead him to use in his production processes different materials, artificial and organic, with which he gives life to hybrid elements that have an impact on the viewer's perception.
The exhibition also shows evidence of the archaeological legacy as a framework for the timeless use of knowledge, constructions or technologies that are unable to cope with temporality or stagnation. Lamas intervenes by reversing industrial logic and traditional museographic requirements, creating new approaches of formal and cultural transformation.
The relational between organisms and machines is a recurring theme in his work, a line that also marks his critical vision of past and present production and consumption systems, also alluding to technological milestones and observing the appreciation of their original functionality. Objects exist beyond human observation or perception, but the relationship in the result of Lamas' work is evident.
Lamas advocates that his work be approached as something encyclopedic, but from a random, almost anarchic perspective, in which the image of the product of objects and differentiated semiotics conform new visions that seem to challenge an established human knowledge that, nevertheless, and as a constantly evolving concept, can be exposed to reinterpretation.
Flujos atemporales/sedimentos cognitivos can be seen until January 25, 2025 at The Goma, Doctor Fourquet 4, Madrid (Spain).
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