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               ___ (b,b, kiss) LIVE
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       ( breathingspace
       OVER_ EXPOSURE (REST
       ABSENT SKIN
       SEVERAL/GLOW (x y z
       CONVERSION (glow)
       continual (
       NOWNES(S(ESS_
       SONGS TO THE SUNS
               WE (   live
     
       RED PATIENCE        
       PERISTYLE
               CHOR(EO GRAPH)VS
       DESIRE
        BLUE-BARBAR-BRAID
               FORM(UL)ATIONS
               Vessels (black, gold    
       Simple Form(ation)s
               Portraits
       ALL THAT GLITTERS
       SOFTNESS
       Beginnings (Odyssey)

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ABSENT SKIN

Et al. (San Francisco, USA)
2023



ABSENT SKINinstallation view                    2023Photo: Aaron Harbour



ABSENT SKINexhibition map           2023


ABSENT SKINdetail           perforation drawings in mount      2023Photo: Aaron Harbour




In ABSENT SKIN, the works (3, 7, 21, 147, 3087) aim at vitalizing some of the enclosures of seemingly uninvolved structures (form, surface, display, location, country). The transdisciplinary works in the exhibition consist of traditional art forms such as drawing, sculpture, print and performance - which gladly slip away from their function as works of “visual art” in their prioritization to meet the gaze. Each work-groupings’ conceptual performativity is brought to the fore as it functions as formal work and at the same time as intervention. By making porosity, perforation, and breath central parameters of ABSENT SKIN, the works occur on the surface and expose material and metaphoric limits as extendable.

Various absences are operating in the exhibition, while the imperative of having to be seen in order to be granted existence is questioned: the performance occurs in the absence of an audience. The 3 performers’ exhale parameters the rhythm of the pigment’s application onto the walls: a simple choreography of leaving a wall-glow. The specificity of the performers’ own embodied polylingual and transcultural knowledge is central information in what all is constituting the glow left behind.
As pigment is applied onto the walls on either side of the exhibition space, the center wall is expanded: holes drilled by gallery workers extend that architectural structure, and 21 hollow porcelain sculptures intervene into it, as if to let it breathe. Later, when the wall gets spackled for exhibitions to come, it will remain porous.  The work is created and installed in the physical absence of the artist. No flying about the planet has been undertaken, no borders crossed. The work is created under continuous communication with each collaborator involved, stringing together a sensual closeness despite distance – the common experience of temporary reconnection between absence kin.

3087 seconds of a listening-session will be live-streamed on the day of the opening, bridging places that can not touch, while making possible to attune to a listening experience created by and in absence of the DJ in resonance with the exhibition’s core concepts.

ABSENT SKIN is a situation offering a temporary relief from full attesting in order to exist. ABSENT SKIN is an invitation to exhale.







ABSENT SKIN
detail (7,iv, 7,v)
perforation drawings in mount      2023Photo: Aaron Harbour




ABSENT SKINdetail (21)       perforation drawings in mount      2023Photo: Aaron Harbour


ABSENT SKINdetail (147)risograph poster (front)2023


ABSENT SKINdetail (147)        risograph poster (back)2023





Listening Session/DJ
Aio Frei

Risograph Print
Colpa Press, San Francisco

Text Editor 
Tash Matteson
Performers
P Leal
Beatriz Escobar
Marcel Pardo Ariza




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IZIDORA I LETHE

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