Vulnerable Solid
Curated by Eder Chiodetto
September 2024
forms
that form infinity
that unshape us
come to remind us
that life is made
to play
our diptych brought us together
we became one single work
we only know how to live in one
my rhythm slows down
with your reflection
I meditate
to the voice of the waves
the Southwest wind
our amusement park
the movement
our ecstasy
we enter this empty
sphere
this unknown place
that seems familiar
a regress
an ambiguous
feeling
this existential void
by looking at the past
do we understand
the present?
I ask you
you ask me
everybody asks us
if in silence
we listen to each other
if in silence
we complete ourselves
if we deconstruct ourselves
to reconstruct ourselves
if we unlearn
to learn, together,
to live
the memory
our island of edition
shuffling
everything and anything
the certainty
of time's unexistence
the uncertainty
of our existence
the distance
scares me
with a breath
I project
my disappearance
in my body
I alienate myself
something hugs me
tells me that I am me
tells me who am I
a flavor
a note
hiding with you
both of us
sailing to the same knot
shining on the moon
I search for the endless walk
Luciana Rique
Vulnerable Solid
Certain artists, when faced with the dilemmas of existence, which inevitably contains oppressive narratives and signs of traumas acquired throughout life, turn the artistic gesture into a therapeutic way of overcoming this state of things. Art then emerges with its potential for transmuting reality, capable of creating a welcoming and therapeutic environment.
In Vulnerable Solid, the artist continues to use photographic images, which she obtains through a unique way of capturing traces, encounters of shapes, cadences of light and textures that, in general, escape a less attentive look. These images, which emerge from a contemplative state and manifest themselves as the visible materiality of a particular universe, now strive to make volatile the solidity of the weights and counterweights that we insist on carrying throughout life.
Luciana Rique expands the use of photography, now seeking a dialogue between images and materials that create tensions and distensions in the body of the works, resulting in pieces in which lightness, balance and a pressing state of sensorial enjoyment provide the tone that drives this desire of transmutation.
Traditional photography mediums such as paper, frames and glass lose their utilitarian feature, which only aims to preserve the works. Thus, the photograph becomes an object, the glass becomes part of the work, the reflection and opacity reveal how incidental lights shape our perception of the world.
A territory of appeasement and balancing of opposing forces, Luciana Rique's visual and poetic work is configured as an environment
which has the capacity to restore the axis shaken by the imbalances of our days. Or as the Mexican poet Octavio Paz says: “...the struggle is resolved in the poem, with the triumph of the image that embraces the opposites without annihilating them”.
Eder Chiodetto