Exhibitions
Inhabiting contemporary cracks: El Bòlit is filled with the work of Maria Camila Sanjinés
The conceptual premise of going underground to a research project that takes the form of an exhibition.
The interdisciplinary practice of Maria Camila Sanjinés lands at the Bòlit. Contemporary Art Center of Girona with Anar per terra, an exhibition that can be seen until September 28. A journey created from a series of ceramic installations that explore contemporary ways of inhabiting the margins.
The Colombian artist, who lives in Olot, explores identities, gender, displacement, diversity, memory and belonging, but in El Bòlit she creates through the earth as a germinal material where she questions the human being's right to refuge and the ancestral need to inhabit a protected place; the experience of living in the cracks, in non-places and the creation of artistic objects after collective community meetings.
"We are a species that lives in caves. We are not made to sleep in the open air; we lost our hair and our skin has become increasingly thinner. Our dwellings protect us, warm us and store our remains. They accumulate all kinds of stories: rubble, chairs, organic matter, sheets that mark our skin, bites, spoons, brushes that have dedicated their existence to cleaning our teeth.
Some of these fragments move with us throughout life, forming a second skin. Others hang on us like trophies or useless appendages. Our body melts with the ruins into pieces of a puzzle that don't quite fit, forced to coexist. We transform ourselves at every threshold we cross, molding ourselves to the contours of new caverns that welcome us. We whisper gratitude to these shelters, to these intimate geographies that cover us. The right to a decent home, to a simple shelter: a fundamental right, a primary need, a hominid echo looking for the cave where to rest our bones”, explains Maria Camila Sanjinés.
An exhibition project that emerges from a participatory research developed from meetings with groups that inhabit these contemporary cracks. The project was conceived as an integral process: research and result. The research began with meetings between the La Volta Cultural Association, the Bòlit and the artist to weave a collaboration that would take root in the city.
On Friday, September 19, a guided tour of the Bòlit has been scheduled by Maria Camila Sanjinés at 7 p.m. An opportunity to get to know her work and this exhibition of Going to Earth in detail.
