ROCKS, CEMENT AND THREADS: THE INVISIBLE FORCES OF MATTER AT MAC SANTIAGO

The exhibition Ejercicios de enlaces (Linking Exercises), by visual artist Emilio Fuentes Traverso (Santiago, Chile, 1983), is presented in the galleries of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, MAC sede Quinta Normal. The show, which opened on Friday, April 24, will remain on view through August 23.

The exhibition brings together a group of sculptures that articulate natural rocks with fragments of materials associated with contemporary construction, such as cement, plaster and concrete. Through these combinations, the work invites us to think of these elements as part of a single system of material transformation and creation.

The pieces are configured through the incorporation of sewing threads — elements that traverse and tension the different fragments, operating as metaphors for invisible forces — pressures, displacements or accumulations of energy — that act upon matter over long periods of time, gradually modifying it. 

Several of the works appear suspended in space, generating objects charged with an unstable equilibrium that engage with gravity and with the processes of material transformation produced following the impact of meteorites on the planet's surface.

Through these relationships, Ejercicios de enlaces proposes imagining possible encounters between natural, anthropic and extraterrestrial matter.

The show is on view through August 23 at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Av. Matucana 464, Santiago, Chile.