The Animal’s Burrow
KATIUSKA SAAVEDRA
8 - 30 November 2019.
CURATORS
ALEJANDRO CHELLET Y RICHARD MOSZKA
Katiuska Saavedra deals with the issue of arranging her pieces around a space as if it were a kind of journey or parcours. In her way of exploring the lay of the land, she commingles notions of habitation and organism—domesticity involving both one’s home and immediate surroundings but also the idea of being trained to obey (or disobey) social rules.
Through a boiled-down series of substitutions, the artist creates an emotional and conceptual connection between her own self, the space’s original occupants and the show’s spectators. Her actions also cunningly integrate us into others’ do- mains by playing with the fragmentation, disappearance and reappearance of her body. Photographs mirror other mirrors—however, this is not about some form of narcissistic confusion, but about the mutual acknowledgment of a type of collec- tivity or polygamy.
Text by Richard Moszka
KATIUSKA SAAVEDRA
8 - 30 November 2019.
CURATORS
ALEJANDRO CHELLET Y RICHARD MOSZKA
Katiuska Saavedra deals with the issue of arranging her pieces around a space as if it were a kind of journey or parcours. In her way of exploring the lay of the land, she commingles notions of habitation and organism—domesticity involving both one’s home and immediate surroundings but also the idea of being trained to obey (or disobey) social rules.
Through a boiled-down series of substitutions, the artist creates an emotional and conceptual connection between her own self, the space’s original occupants and the show’s spectators. Her actions also cunningly integrate us into others’ do- mains by playing with the fragmentation, disappearance and reappearance of her body. Photographs mirror other mirrors—however, this is not about some form of narcissistic confusion, but about the mutual acknowledgment of a type of collec- tivity or polygamy.
Text by Richard Moszka
