Seguir el paso al caminar de las cosas by Adrián White: at Project Room, curated by Christian Barragán
Current exhibition
Overview
Saenger Galería is pleased to collaborate for the first time with Adrián White, who has designed the project Seguir el paso al caminar de las cosas (Follow the Step of Things Walking), with which he intervenes the gallery's Project Room in an ephemeral and integral way.
An image of time, internal time, which records the events of things, from the trace of their appearance, to the wake of their disappearance. An internal image of the present: both the intimacy of its duration, and the density due to the accumulation of events. A spectrum of presence, not the absence, but its transparency, the volatile nature of things. A suspended image of time passing. Internal time, which records the friction and transfer of things. An image and its dissolution: following the step of things walking.
Adrián White works with some simple and common materials: graphite and charcoal in powder and stick presentations, dissolved and undissolved white acrylic, wood, breath, time, above all time, and little else. He is interested in the properties of the material he uses, such as the containment and dispersion potential of a mass of charcoal powder contained in the cup of his hand that he suddenly scatters into the air with his breath. He is intrigued by the lack of definition of the gesture, as well as the estrangement obtained by the sum of countless layers of graphite and white acrylic superimposed through geometric and organic templates. Adrián White meditates on the indeterminacy of a thought, and with severe patience he digs into the geology of each image thus obtained. He recalls Szymborska and her knock on the door of a stone: —It is me, let me in. / I want to penetrate your interior, / take a look, / breathe you.
Adrián White's work is modest and rigorous. While he avoids the leading roar of color, he resorts to the friction that the achromatic palimpsest of whites and grays encourages in the gaze, an optical alteration in which planes, marks and transparencies are densely fused. His drawings respond to the notion of landscape in relation to the body, the gaze and silence, putting the experience with the image in tension. His work is, simultaneously, the saturation of temporalities gathered during the creative process, and the emptying of all chronological order, without a starting point or an end point. Only the latency of stages in the development of an image, as evidenced by the residues and traces left behind by the task of following the course of events.
— Christian Barragán
An image of time, internal time, which records the events of things, from the trace of their appearance, to the wake of their disappearance. An internal image of the present: both the intimacy of its duration, and the density due to the accumulation of events. A spectrum of presence, not the absence, but its transparency, the volatile nature of things. A suspended image of time passing. Internal time, which records the friction and transfer of things. An image and its dissolution: following the step of things walking.
Adrián White works with some simple and common materials: graphite and charcoal in powder and stick presentations, dissolved and undissolved white acrylic, wood, breath, time, above all time, and little else. He is interested in the properties of the material he uses, such as the containment and dispersion potential of a mass of charcoal powder contained in the cup of his hand that he suddenly scatters into the air with his breath. He is intrigued by the lack of definition of the gesture, as well as the estrangement obtained by the sum of countless layers of graphite and white acrylic superimposed through geometric and organic templates. Adrián White meditates on the indeterminacy of a thought, and with severe patience he digs into the geology of each image thus obtained. He recalls Szymborska and her knock on the door of a stone: —It is me, let me in. / I want to penetrate your interior, / take a look, / breathe you.
Adrián White's work is modest and rigorous. While he avoids the leading roar of color, he resorts to the friction that the achromatic palimpsest of whites and grays encourages in the gaze, an optical alteration in which planes, marks and transparencies are densely fused. His drawings respond to the notion of landscape in relation to the body, the gaze and silence, putting the experience with the image in tension. His work is, simultaneously, the saturation of temporalities gathered during the creative process, and the emptying of all chronological order, without a starting point or an end point. Only the latency of stages in the development of an image, as evidenced by the residues and traces left behind by the task of following the course of events.
— Christian Barragán
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