The imagination of the body - Paulina Silva
You can see the exhibition catalogue here.
It is difficult for one world to enter another world and follow the path to get out. Everything behaves like earth, the big and the small. The same wells, the same rivers. An upside-down volcano is the beginning of everything. Technology has allowed us to examine live and in high definition what happens inside the human body. Over time, machines have been built capable of capturing images that explain the origin of the symptoms that afflict us and even what, without warning, happens inside us.
The starting point of this exhibition is not the precision or objective knowledge of science and imaging, but rather allowing distraction from the beauty of not knowing, of the open, of emptiness and curiosity that seeks answers in the imagination, sensations, dreams.
This set of paintings and sculptures aspire to be a diagram of internal bodily processes. Shapes and colours that have the ever-inexhaustible desire to show the mechanisms of what keeps us alive, the functioning of what happens at all times without our will or control, even though the body is ours.
These works are also a parenthesis that gives space to the magical and fanciful thinking of childhood, which tries to decipher how a tree could grow in our stomach if we ate a seed or how we got to our mothers' wombs. We construct this type of impossible images even when we are adults, to confront mysteries as complex as the multiplication and omnipresence of a virus, an inexplicable pain, or the various misunderstandings of fertility.
The imagination of the body offers a journey through the illusion of finding structures and figures that support a unique way of representing what it is to have a body. A journey that leads to unexpected outcomes, where there is space and attention for the spontaneous.
Catalina Ramirez.
About Paulina Silva
Artist, curator and author. Born in Santiago de Chile in 1990. Currently lives in Granada, Spain. She studied Fine Arts at the PUC in Santiago de Chile, and later dedicated her studies to research on engraving, drawing and painting.
The constant attempt to understand creativity and representation based on one's own experience has led him to develop a dynamic work that reflects everyday life full of questions about the environment, the way nature, time and the body itself behave.
She has exhibited in Chile, France, Germany, Slovenia and Spain. She has participated in art fairs such as KAOS Festival of Contemporary Collage Art in Kranj (Slovenia) HYBRID Art Fair (Spain) and SWAB Barcelona. She is the author of the book Mujeres, Y lo que Pensamos Mientras Pasa el Tiempo (Women, And What We Think While Time Passes). Published by Editorial Lunwerg. Planeta, in Spain. and in France by Editorial La Boîte à Bulles. She is the founder and curator of art projects at La Raíz. Galería. Granada, which mostly houses projects by Latin American and Andalusian artists.
