THE IME HOSTS VANESSA ENRÍQUEZ SOLO SHOW
The Cultural Institute of Mexico in Spain presents at its headquarters in Madrid the exhibition El silencio sedimenta (Silence Sediments), a look at the most recent production of Vanessa Enríquez (Mexico City, Mexico, 1973). The show revolves around six literary fragments that reflect on her work, materiality, and creative processes.
Taking as a starting point her interest in the line as an instrumental element and its spatial possibilities, the Mexican artist has explored the transformation from two-dimensionality to sculptural three-dimensionality through the use of VHS magnetic tape.
This research delves into the physical qualities of the elements, but regards the very process of working as an end in itself. The development she proposes is meticulous, devoted to detail with an almost obsessive character, a form of production that evolves at an organic pace set only by the artist.
El silencio sedimenta seeks to give the exhibition a narrative structure built from lyricism as well as from plastic and aesthetic action. Emptiness is no longer considered an absence, but rather acquires an evocative capacity for the viewer, while silence—another kind of conceptual emptiness—becomes the transformative tool in this experience.
Vanessa Enríquez. El silencio sedimenta can be visited until October 17 at the Cultural Institute of Mexico in Spain, Carrera de San Jerónimo 46, Madrid (Spain).
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