| Holding breath: A dying poem
Act I: Saturday, May 24th
12 [removed]
Calle Luis Hoyos Sainz 2, (int)
39001, Santander,
Spain.
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Join us this Saturday for Act I of Holding breath: A dying poem, a new commissioned work by Pol Wah Tse in complicity with digestivo.
Following the exhibition’s opening Overture, Act I undertakes the contradiction of a beginning: it unfolds as a co–implicated process that begins in the middle. Bringing together Pol Wah Tse’s work in dialogue with digestivo –an initiative focused on correspondence and resonance between practices through process–centered and collaborative dynamics–, Act I functions as an iteration or echo from a previous exhibition, including the processes discarded during a shared time.
Departing from a diagrammatic approach to volume, it proposes a series of marking exercises: sculptural works that test the plasticity of their material limits, playing with the stains, the residues and the imprints of an action that has already taken place. Some of these pieces will remain on view in future acts of Holding breath: A dying poem, while others have been conceived from a contingent logic. They will be consumed during the course of the event, as annotations or counter–movements that allow language to flourish regardless it bearing fruit.
Holding breath: A dying poem is a year–long exhibition that considers how transmission, change and affection reverberate on us, once objects and bodies are no longer [removed];
Thinking through logistical and maintenance systems as spectral forces, the exhibition rehearses different temporalities by juxtaposing multiple durations, compositions and assemblages of work.
Across seven acts (overture –act I to V– and epilogue), the exhibition’s organising principle aims to reveal the traces that, beyond physicality, movement and connectivity provoke. In doing so, it tests the political configurations that exist within such immaterial space.
The image contained in the title is this of an oxygen curve being exhaled from the mouth, taking the shape of a vertical concavity. As it evaporates into the atmosphere, the body’s warmth dissipates into a wider mass of air. We breathe and the self dilutes into the environment cyclically, just as the world enters in us, making space through circulation.
The cyclical patterns of logistic capitalism oscillate between violence and desire, suffocating life and exacerbating extraction, verging towards total mobility. Shaping a space of intersections between sounds, texts, performances and objects, the exhibition’s repertoire looks into that jointure where echoes, presences, vibrations and ties, reveal our structural fragilities and shared fractures.
Pol Wah Tse’s work with digestivo will be on view along previous contributions to Holding Breath by Maya Deren, Gary Indiana and Estanis Comella.
Act II will take place on May 31st featuring works by Joven de la Perla (through Mariano Blatt) + Amaia Urra.
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