YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE: SPECIAL PROJECT AT PINTA LIMA
A system. An architecture. A way of setting out the guidelines that connect millenary myths with the manifestations provided by the present. Lo que este paisaje puede decir sobre el futuro (What this landscape can say about the future), Pinta Lima's Special Project, is an oracle: a sacred space that reveals the union between what is and what can be.
Curated by Giuliana Vidarte, the Special Project at Pinta Lima's Main Hall and Garden presents “beings and elements that coexist in today's ecosystems” in connection with a past of millenary traditions. Lo que este paisaje puede decir sobre el futuro brings together works and artists who delve into the stories of humanity's transformation that connect with the present to imagine new ways of conceiving a common worldview.
Distributed in an outdoor and an indoor space at Casa Prado, the proposal unfolds in a multidimensional way: it travels through the past and thinks about the future while reflecting on the generation of symbols and myths of humanity and reaffirming the importance of taking care of the planet. Yesterday and tomorrow, inside and outside.
Interior
Luis Enrique Zela-Koort's glass sculptures function as test tubes for new formulas. Exercises in the speculation of form that test the limits of material and color. They are complemented by other works produced by Zela-Koort that make up a solar-personal-solar-system that orbits in expansion.
In addition, Elena Damiani's paintings juxtapose –always intuitively, but never casually– marbled papers taken from late 18th- and early 19th-century books with photographs of erratic rocks. The key word is erratic: unpredictable, aimless, misplaced. The random effect generated by the marbling and the stones exposing out-of-place geological formations focus on the irregular pattern as a message. What is out of line is what ends up setting the course.
Exterior
Silvia Westphalen works the stone from what the material hides and reveals in the process. An attempt to replicate the geographical process that is never static, but neither is it constant or mechanical. Her sculptures reveal a spiral or unfolding rhythm.
FIBRA Colectivo -Lucía Monge, Gianine Tabja and Gabriela Flores del Pozo- presents a sculpture created with handmade soaps made from recycled palm oil. The zero moment of creation: thinking the work from its material and projecting its form towards new horizons. A new possible destiny. The work comes from the palm trees and to the palm trees it goes.
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