HOW TO FOLD A PARACHUTE: BARCELONA
“It is the tension and serenity of the knots that assume their form once they cease to be rope; of the firm, orderly and bristly folds, turned into light, almost antagonistic papers, like crusts on the skin, which also accommodate in their place. A carousel of binomials that coexist in permeability”
Mayoral presents 'How to Fold a Parachute,' a solo show by Alícia Vogel, on Wednesday, June 26, at 7 PM in the context of Art Nou.
And after landing, what’s next? This is the question that Alícia Vogel asks us, ironically, in “How to Fold a Parachute”, where she appropriates an old parachute to indicate the rawness and the tenderness of light things that can be lapidary. The wings of the first person who tried to fly were of no use, and this exhibition deals with giving (more than one) shape to the success or failure of something in/voluntary.
If we struggle to fold the map after a journey, it is because, although the map is the same, everything has changed. Searching for the instructions of that which holds out against us, Vogel breaks, cuts, and ties a fragility that remains in suspense. Through paintings, drawings, intervened objects, and a video of found footage, the artist stretches out the tension to the point of a paradox, the moment when coordinates are inverted and everything starts again.
