julieta tarraubella. An image of his exhibition “The gravity of a rising body”.
Ungallery presents these days, “The gravity of a body that ascends”, an exhibition by the Peruvian artist Julieta Tarraubella (1991) based in Argentina. The exhibition, curated by Eduardo Basualdo, deals with celestial phenomena, beginning with a video that shows a sky over the buildings of downtown Buenos Aires where stormy clouds run. The large-format image, projected on a milky acrylic mounted on the pipes of a scaffolding, is visible from both sides. The lights and shadows dizzyingly cross the sky and show an unstable and fleeing world.
The presentation text clarifies: “The series of works make up a kind of spectrometry of the sky. The scientific term “spectrum” evokes a kind of fragmented vision of invisible phenomena: a look that reveals the dismemberment of light, energy. The works that make up this exhibition, through the use of different media (sculpture, photography, video, installation) represent various appearances of the sky in the urban environment: the movement of clouds from the alleys, the desire to fly, the projection of dreams when looking at the sky.”
Asked about the meaning of her works and some mutilated hands, Tarraubella clarifies that they are there, in a large installation, to support and lift what is earthly and to make it ascend to heaven. Right there there are images of small feathers and wire sculptures, while wings made of shiny aluminum are extended with a system of pulleys and ready to take flight. The large iron installation supports the prism that projects a rainbow and holds an encounter with beauty.
To accompany the exhibition, Tomo Cabrera wrote a fictional text. “I remembered that somewhere I had been told that, if we remove from our vision the frequencies that correspond to the blue spectrum, we could succumb to a strong depression related to losing the greatest vital reference: the color of the sky. With this perceptual collapse we would drag the color of the bodies of water and thus, a large part of the color that we perceive in things would fade.” Almost at the end of the story, Cabrera asks himself: “How could we tell others about that previous sky, about the existence of blue?”
Eduardo Basualdo observes that Tarraubella summoned him when he saw his installation in the Moderno. “We had a tutorial to think together about the exhibition as a structural and spatial approach. Or, that is, what objects make up the spatial dramaturgy. “They are basically new works, but they all have antecedents in the production of Juliet.”
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