Sandra Gamarra
Juana de Aizpuru. Madrid
It might be said that the new proposal that Sandra Gamarra (Lima, Peru, 1972) presented in the Madrid gallery Juana de Aizpuru was comprised of two projects which, although grouped under the same title − In Order of Appearance − were clearly differentiated from a formal point of view. And in both the artist made reference to the mentioned heading, to the fortuitous and informative and perhaps fleeting nature of cinematographic credits. In the first gallery hall the viewer could appreciate several press photographs, collected over the years by the artist herself, immediately reproduced in an orderly succession of images that predisposed the spectators towards certain social criticism and towards a disorderly and random flow of information, linking what they saw with the subject on which the artist reflected.
The other exhibition space, the largest in the gallery, hosted can- vases and installations which also made reference to that “disorder” and to its process of assimilation through the bibliography. The latter were made up of small canvases displayed in angle between the wall and the floor, and reproducing in the manner of literary works the covers of several books in which certain pieces of information had been eliminated. The five canvases sharing this space complemented the artist’s invitation to exercise perception, and incited the viewer to reconsider and evoke images that had been assimilated or stored away in his or her memory.
