SPACE AND SENSES IN ANDREA CANEPA
The intervention Wasi Llamkha (Place and touch), by artist Andrea Canepa (Lima, Peru, 1980), stands on the South Patio of Madrid's Condeduque. This pavilion, designed as an ephemeral architectural structure, invites us to explore its sensorial value, far from the preeminence of the visual, and claims, by way of inspiration, the quipus, the forms of representation and recording of information from pre-Columbian Peru.
The conception of this construction is rooted in these Inca tools, but also in the principles of mnemotechnical memorization popular during the Renaissance with a similar instrumental purpose. The Ars memorativa, perhaps the most popular of them, oriented in that arrangement and registration using the spatial layout and architecture, agents that would represent, through their memory, the individual narrative.
The intervened space invites discovery through the movement of the body, touch and sound, and suggests a continuation of Canepa's research and work on perception and control-oriented simplification. In each of the levels of Wasi Llamkha (Place and touch), strategically placed coated surfaces and textures that refer to texts made by the artist and whose exploration incite to recover the tactile path and that connection with the exercises of visual memory and knowledge based on the senses as tools towards the physical and the immaterial.
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Andrea Canepa. Wasi Llamkha (Lugar y tacto). Foto: Álvaro de Benito
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Andrea Canepa. Wasi Llamkha (Lugar y tacto). Foto: Álvaro de Benito
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Andrea Canepa. Wasi Llamkha (Lugar y tacto). Foto: Álvaro de Benito
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Andrea Canepa. Wasi Llamkha (Lugar y tacto). Foto: Álvaro de Benito
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Andrea Canepa. Wasi Llamkha (Lugar y tacto). Foto: Álvaro de Benito
Wasi Llamkha (Place and touch) can be visited until May 12 at Centro Cultural Condeduque, Conde Duque, 11, Madrid (Spain).
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