Lo Arbóreo
Gustavo Pérez
12.09.2024 - 09.11.2024
The solo exhibition Lo Arbóreo by ceramist Gustavo Pérez at MEMORIA Centro (C/ Piamonte 19), is presented in dialogue, while preserving its own character, with an exhibition of the same name by the artist Lin Calle at MEMORIA Carabanchel, both on this shared common axis.
Drawing from the proliferation and saturation of mass-produced images by digital devices, there has been a depletion of our imagination. Thus the critical importance of the dialogue proposed in these exhibitions, as they display the emergence of works from the limits of the visible, in the tension between the material and the immaterial. Their quest for relatively hollowing contemplation deepens a transfiguration in the field of the sensitive towards a pause.
Contrary to the impositions of contemporary visual pollution, the works of Pérez and Calle incite an approach in other rhythms and times, slowing down the gaze towards a meditative immersion. Stemming from Japanese shinrin yoku, or forest bathing - where one is bound to absorb the woodlands in calmness, taking the time to perceive the environment from a sensorial standpoint -, both artists conceive their works as an effort for creating a space of reflection that sharpens a full and physical perception of those artworks.
