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homesession offers since 2007 an atypical artist-in-residence program, which consists in short-term residencies and a strong involvement within the local community.
Site-specific: Invited-One-Day
homesession investigates the relation between artworks and their context: Invited-One-Day is a specific program developed in collaboration with spanish artists.
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Invited-One-Day #02 Margarita Pineda
Margarita Pineda has conceived a specific work for the Invited-
One-Day program, considering the relation between private and
public space from a perspective that combines openness and
projection. The ephemeral installation she creates on the façade
of the building, goes beyond the limit of the creation space and
brings out a materialisation of intimacy to the public space, as if
we were dealing with invasive species.
The work is installed as an unbalancing point in the double function
of the facade, that is, to conceal what’s behind it and to show
a serie of signs that give us a glimpse of what it pretends to hide.
The symbols that Margarita’s work put in practice set intimacy
back to its artificial status, as the use of a textile container for
works’ rubbles suggests: the mild plasticity of the intervention,
the soft lights and forms it takes, the textile fabric and the thread
refer to the confort, to the feminity and to the fireplace, a bunch
of hints that develop the novelistic narrative of intimacy. Margarita
literally rebuild intimacy in the public space, contaminating it
with meanings that don’t belong to it.
The projection of intimacy goes with the visibility given to the
mental perception of the territory (the territory of intimacy seen
through an intimate perception). On the textile containers, an
embroidered text displays some appreciations the inhabitants
have wrotten about the place where they live, standing for the
alteration and dilatation fo the space through layers of memory.
What is embroidered is a conceptualization of the transformation
process of the space into a place, «living it, marking it, recognizing
it and appropriating it», as the artist stresses. However,
the form of the installation takes syntax consistency off the text,
breaking it up in a mere serie of words, that seem to float freely
within the folds of the fabric. «To read is a struggle to name (...),
it consists in hesitating among several names»: the semantic
transformation process that Barthes describes with this claim,
takes root in each word, autonomous through the reading. Each
of them relates to a network of connotations, symbols, a proliferation
of meanings and references, thousands of insects fluttering
near the light. The verbal formalization process about what
is a home, its lexical representation drifts away toward an abundance
of meanings that escape to the very authors of the text.
The outbreak of intimacy into the public space open by this way
the territory to different intelligences and tales that don’t come
from it. «Poeta Cabanyes 68» displays the narrative of intimacy
meanwhile it splits the verbalisation of the territory in a multiplicity
of voices.
- Poeta Cabanyes 68, site-specific installation, 2010
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