Project 22
Somos Constructos - Beatrice Simoncini Amado
Curated by Tsering Frykman-Glen
June 18th - July 30th 2021, Tangent Projects gallery.
Let the works build themselves.
Let us/me come together in its/my hereafter.
No matter its final form, we are always in a relationship with language;
with all its complexities, problems; with all its traps and possibilities.
Against militarized discourse applied to each of life’s facets, a collective appropriation of
enunciation
founded on love.
Giving a new meaning to our relationship
with language,
with the body – bodies –
with the other,
with our circumstances,
with work,
An impulse to escape from one’s own gestures – one’s own identity – which brings us to find materials which require only
a single – great – effort of giving space,
a wish to escape from hyper-productivity which turns the process into a refuge – here the growing, gestational rhythms of each piece are and have been essential, as this learning is and has been possible only after the body adapted to
foreign rhythms:
color fragments which are witness and trace from our watery origin,
bacterial cellulose – retracted/folded, superimposed, rolled into –.
Impermanence and growth.
A dialogue between organic components and building materials which tries to embody what
is essential
of our vulnerability and interrelationships, which focuses on the way we perceive our
natural evolution.
An exchange of knowledge between works and the public. Fugue lines towards a collective
authority.
The tangle of theoretical notions which are part of this space take time and place.
This show allows an analogue between installation and structures – constructs – which make up our Being, trying to make manifest the possibility of vagueness in each of us;
mutable future,
the – complex – option to form and reform ourselves indefinitely.
A redefinition of identity which tries to lead towards the politicisation of the aesthetic experience, where sensual enjoyment and theoretical affectation are equally perceived.
An invitation to have a micro/macro-political reading of each of the components which work together in this installation; the ensemble of pieces operates from conception as an outwardly facing work, taking up physical and mental space, expanding meaning and inciting the recognition of a world outside the frame of the show.
They speak of the sensual universe which we Are, to the ties which bind our environment and conform a – our – common world.
Bodies without organs which work to provoke open lines for thought,
for unstoppableness,
for an insistence in the effort to make changes in our perception.
An intention to expand the limits of works to eventually tear down other terms,
use of a language that leads to the joining once again of art and ideas,
generation of a new tissue from the opening of thought and love.
A transformation into life or a transformation of life,
a creation of life,
a generation of collectivity.
“Somos Constructos (We are Constructs) is a project born from my research on ways to engage with language and materials used in artistic practice.”
What has been learned, and what has been felt, for a long time, gathers in an installation that combines organic elements and procedures with man-made materials. In this space, the audience is encouraged to make micro and macro-political readings of each of the elements that create a space where, helped by theoretical and textual resources, an analogous relationship between identity and the work in its entirety is established.
Somos Constructos can be understood as a changing and mutable way of interpreting one’s own relationship with their environment, other people, workplace/daily life rhythms and elements employed in artistic practice. Pieces operate from conception as outwardly facing works that occupy physical and mental space, expand meanings and push towards recognition of a world that exists outside the frame of the exposition. They allude to the sensory universe we make up, to the connecting ties of our environment and interiority which are a part of the articulations of a (our) shared world.
Beatrice Simoncini Amado is a Fine Art student in Universidad de Barcelona (University of Barcelona).
Her artistic practice explores concepts such as identity, multiplicity and interrelations to offer ways to make presence of the ties (visible and imperceptible) which bind us (forever and always). These themes are formalized mainly through painting, which ideas which do not search for a particular aesthetic but for the opportunity to delve into and learn about how external presences have influence on the creative process – being able, in this way, to detect and analyze the effects of hyper-productivity and social vulnerability have on our way to relate to working times and pieces, and adopt a critical posture towards one’s own existence.