LIMINAL, BY JULIA AURORA GUZMÁN, AT PELAIRES
The proposal of Julia Aurora Guzmán (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1993) navigates between different techniques, addressing sculpture, textile, photography or performance and is posed as the result of the vital action itself. Her works decipher and highlight the natural cycles of life, the beginning with birth and the end with death, without forgetting the present as transience.
Liminal is the Dominican artist's proposal for the Pelaires Gallery, an exhibition designed specifically for this space and comprising works from the last five years in which Guzmán does not hide her interdisciplinary passion in which she mixes architectural languages and those more primary or artisanal ones with which she draws that personal existence. Conceived as a single element, this exhibition allows us to delve into the artist's artistic research and that compendium that is the transience of life and its surrounding anthropology.
The term "liminality", created at the beginning of the last century by Arnold Van Gennep, alludes to that threshold of anthropological character or of unveiled transition that the rites of passage of different cultures imply. Thus, it also refers to the hybrid spaces of transformation, part of that existence that starts from the very moment of the generation of life. In this exhibition, Guzmán also rescues the value of interior patios as architectural and social meeting spaces, just as the portals have that aspect of recurrent and cyclical element, of entry and exit and constant circulation of the everyday and the routine, or the columns as a basic structure.
Liminal, by Julia Aurora Guzmán, can be seen until July 19 at Pelaires Gallery, Can Veri, 3, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
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