| Holding breath: A dying poem
Act III: Saturday, July 12th.
Opening: 12 [removed] at fluent
Covadonga: [removed] [removed] –Embarcadero Real. C/ Familia Real 1, Santander–
Calle Luis Hoyos Sainz 2, (int)
39001, Santander, Spain.
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Join us on Saturday, July 12th for Act III of Holding breath: A dying poem, presenting a series of sculptures by Nobuko Tsuchiya, and Covadonga, a new work by Marouane Bakhti with live sound by Jonás de Murias followed by an edible landscape served by Grace Gloria [removed];
The group of sculptures by Nobuko Tsuchiya that appear in Act III materialise a set of connections, transitions, circuits and potentialities. Their elemental properties evoke an intimate attachment to unidentified presences and ghostly memories from a cosmic past. Bringing together the dialectical, material and logistical layers of a multidimensional continuum, their presence in the space destabilize the frontiers of time and our perception of the axes past–present–future.
Tracing a similar questioning of time and history, Covadonga will gather us at sunset, around Marouane Bakhti’s writing, the sound of Jonás de Murias and an edible landscape by Grace Gloria [removed];Covadonga is an audiovisual performance departing from a commissioned text by Marouane Bakhti, unfolding a new reading of the Reconquista myth, where medieval folklore, contemporary violences and the timelessness of desire merge. Bakhti’s words unweave along Jonás de Murias’ live sounds, to take us inside the belly of Picos de Europa and across the Cantabric coast in a cannibal road trip, followed by a dinner served by Grace Gloria Dennis.
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 IV will take place on September 27th featuring works by Sean Being and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
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