Mantle “The Veil That Covers the Stone”

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Manto

*“el velo que cubre la piedra”

(Mantle “The Veil That Covers the Stone”)

 

 

To say stone

 

To read time

 

 

To look geologically is to unweave the image of things. To peel away its layers and rub away the traces formed by time until deep fibers and patterns are found. To unweave the image is to dismember and pause in each sediment, a subtractive process of excavation and unveiling.

 

To weave a blanket of desert sand, to spy on the suspended time of an aquatic organism, to deconstruct the narratives of a linear discourse, to interlace a fissure with hair, to expose the veins of sedimentary rock, to record the manifestations of a cave, to draw volcanoes that reveal the primitive pigment brewing inside the earth, to explode the landscape, to encapsulate a river in a blown glass stone, to unweave a metamorphic nucleus and to sculpt with words a navel of magma. This set of actions brings together in this exhibition a group of artists who weave a mantle while unweaving temporal paradigms.

 

With an intergenerational signature on the ecological disaster and sensitive observations of our natural history, the mineral threads interlaced in this conversation invite us to recognize a feminine imprint in aspects of the contemporary landscape. Nevertheless, in terms of deep time, these insignificant gestures place us on existential scales more open to synchronicities.

 

 

Text: Leyla Cárdenas

 

*El velo que cubre la piedra, book by Ignacio Piedrahíta