Selma Guisande's artistic practice is undoubtedly an example of the relationship between creative (imaginative) processes and everyday tasks; it connects us through a meticulous look at details that escape us at first glance but are constitutively present. There is a metalanguage that takes us from the projection of a shadow to the complexity of the human figure, a figure that resists its own forms and expands through light and/or color. Guisande's work reflects her feelings about the world but also about self-care and the intimate aspects of being human; through this artistic proposal, it is possible to experience the political dimension and, at the same time, this space of refuge from creation itself.

 

This exhibition is presented from two possible dimensions: on the one hand, a dimension that expresses a broad social and political meaning, taking as a reference the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and the human shadows imprinted on the streets of this city, a consequence of the heat impact of "four thousand degrees Celsius" emitted by the bomb. On the other hand, there is a more personal, more intimate dimension, addressing themes related to memory, identity, the body, and the archive, without losing sight of their relationship to the context. Visible in these works are the notions of movement, transit, and continuity, as well as references to the history of photography, which are linked through elements such as shadow, the search for a copy of a copy, the notion of deconstruction, the absence and presence of color, light and shadow as projection, among other elements.

 

This exhibition encourages us to observe the details, to look from a different perspective at the possible representations of the body and its unfoldings, its social imaginaries, as a way of gauging the implications of artistic production related to personal, historical, and contextual experience.

 

Co-curatorship: Fausto Gracia