Several memories exist within us. The body and the spirit each have their own.
Several memories exist within us. The body and the spirit each have their own.
Honoré de Balzac
The traces generated by the body, anchored in the many stories that life leaves along the way as a vestige of the past, become stories that bear witness to a context, a geographic space, a single moment, a bitter mouthful, among many others. The body becomes an object of history, forming part of a material as much as a cultural shift across the centuries. As Jean-Jacques Courtine aptly puts it in his book Histoire du Corps: "From slowness to speed, from the painted portrait to photography, from individual care to collective prevention, from cooking to gastronomy, from sexuality viewed through morality to sexuality viewed through psychology—the place the body occupies in the Western world has evolved over time." In this sense, for the artist Venessa Nieto, we can understand the body as a place of vestiges, as a signum that also becomes a document, bearing witness to the entire course of its existence.
Along these lines, the show features a series of monotypes printed on veils, accompanied by the original garments displayed on a piece of furniture. These objects aim to invite the public to enter an intimate space, to engage in dialogue with the objects and to seek out a relationship with them, or, more importantly, a shared story they might find in common.
Juan David Quintero Arbeláez
Curator