| Holding breath: A dying poem
Act II: Saturday, May 31st. 11 [removed]
Calle Luis Hoyos Sainz 2, (int)
39001, Santander,
Spain.
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Join us this Saturday for Act II of Holding breath: A dying poem, presenting Comienzo a performance by Amaia Urra, followed by a reading of Jovendelaperla’s Me muero, Te quiero by Mariano Blatt.
Following the exhibition’s first act, in which Pol Wah Tse + digestivo unfolded a diagrammatic approach to volume, Act II looks at the interweaving of language and material realities, at the intersection of evasiveness, love, disappearance and poetry.
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.
Act III will take place on July 12th featuring works by Nobuko Tsuchiya 土屋信子, Marouane Bahkti, Jonás de Murias and Gloria Grace Dennis.
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