EXPANDED BODIES  © 2005

Expanded Bodies, 2005
Iron, felt and sanguine
Variable dimensions
Barjola Museum, Gijón

The body is understood in this work as an imagined topography, but the gaze, far from being bucolic and conciliatory, is defined by its "silent" aggressiveness. The city, in its advance, eats away at the landscape, and its most evident metaphor is that of roads and motorways that open the way to make space habitable, paying the price of opening wounds in the earth with their advance. These same "wounds", these voluntary channels, are metamorphosed in the installation presented for the Barjola Museum into zips, understood in its double conception as an instrument that opens and closes and, therefore, that offers and hides; that shows, but also conceals. However, the greatest "wound" of the exhibition is the installation that occupies this chapel of the Trinity converted into an exhibition hall. An enormous zip that crosses the floor and climbs up one of the walls, where we intuit what appear to be the shapes of two bodies and a topographical map generated by the expansion of these sculptural volumes made of white felt.

Javier Díaz Guardiola

CREDITS ::

Conceptualisation: Esther Pizarro
Production: Esther Pizarro

EXHIBITED AT ::

Museo Barjola. "Expanded bodies". Gijón.  25/02/2005 a 03/04/2005.

ASSOCIATED CATALOGUE ::

Pizarro, Esther (2005). Catálogo exposición: Cuerpos Expandidos. Textos: Javier Diaz-Guardiola. Idioma: Español. Edita: Servicio de Publicaciones del Principado de Asturias. Promueve: Museo Barjola, Gijón. Extensión: 72 páginas. Idioma: Español. Formato: 21x22 cm. Encuadernación: rústica. DL: M-13035-2005