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The Gallery Otros 360 Grados presents works that refer to text and language. The proposals of three Colombian artists who live in different parts of the world, focus on the use of the body of the traditional text as a form of expression and that conceptually give form and meaning to the use of a word. The events that have affected the world in recent years have accelerated the forms of expression of humanity, promoting the digital forms almost exclusively to be able to communicate anything and everything. However, in this proposal it is evident how there are some who find a space for creativity that focuses on the physical writing and the materiality of the text. For this reason, they maintain this exercise of the analogous and elaborate new forms of the corporal gesture that is to actually writing.
AnaMaria Gutiérrez de Piñeres uses wire, supported on what is intuited to be notebook paper, and as in a task, she wants the spectator to understand the indecipherable language that is perceived when observing. The three-dimensionality of this language, based on the contrast of light and shadow, hints a text that is reflected and suspended in the air. In the words of María Paula Suarez: “working in two languages has allowed me to understand my realities from different perspectives, as if I were a different person in English and another in Spanish.” The artist uses layered embroideries along with evocative images of poetic words and phrases crafted in both languages, where romantic and suggestive words respond to mundane “doing”. Here the word becomes a means to show intentions that respond to the artist's thoughts and moods. Using a different approach, Miriam Londoño develops her work around paper, a material that lends itself to all kinds of conceptual and formal transformations. Instead of writing on paper, the artist uses the liquid pulp to trace letters and words as if she were weaving a web in space. Her work is free of supports, which allows the writings and drawings to take shape by themselves and be suspended in the air. The texts are based on fragments of Colombian and universal literature and poetry.
Each artist, in her own way, uses the text to express her own ideas, feelings and experiences, or relies on literature as inspiration and means of expression. In these three proposals the word is molded in an individual way that is faithful to the style of each artist.
Otros 360° Gallery has been working mainly with young emerging Latin American artists. It has had the satisfaction of launching artists into the art market and guiding them in the processes and development of some of their projects. In celebration of its 10 years of business, the gallery opens a new space in the heart of Quinta Camacho neighborhood, featuring three times more exhibition space than in its previous headquarters, and continuing with the mission of giving an opportunity to emerging art, through solo exhibitions and participation in art fairs nationally and internationally.
Speech acts A bilingual approach to literary landscapes María Paula Suárez has focused her research on resilience, self-knowledge and love. In her work, she uses complex layered embroideries along with evocative images of words and phrases on different types of paper. In these, the process becomes the means for the artist to reconsider, adapt and transform language for the different scenarios in which she employs it. Through her practice, the artist draws from multiple histories, systems and beliefs to produce a visual language that blurs the boundaries between the abstract and the figurative. Suarez draws inspiration from personal processes and different stages of life to tell stories about individual and collective experiences. Speech Acts, is a series in which María Paula enunciates different mental narratives through phrases in English and Spanish. The works record a diary of emotions, where she evokes romantic and suggestive images that respond to the mundane "doing". Language is the human being's own capacity to express thoughts and feelings through words. In this series, the research is based on a questioning of identity and representation. "Since I arrived in New York, language has been a very powerful tool. Working in two languages has allowed me to understand my realities from different perspectives, almost as if I were a different person in English, and another in Spanish. However, in what refers to the personal, the emotion, and the processes of self-knowledge (which is what I investigate through my work) the language blurs and other elements that refer to my emotions come into play". Speech acts is a series that understands the word as the mean in charge of showing intentions and feelings. The pieces respond to everyday thoughts where each phrase becomes an independent network that appeals to different emotions or states of the artist.
Speech acts A bilingual approach to literary landscapes María Paula Suárez has focused her research on resilience, self-knowledge and love. In her work, she uses complex layered embroideries along with evocative images of words and phrases on different types of paper. In these, the process becomes the means for the artist to reconsider, adapt and transform language for the different scenarios in which she employs it. Through her practice, the artist draws from multiple histories, systems and beliefs to produce a visual language that blurs the boundaries between the abstract and the figurative. Suarez draws inspiration from personal processes and different stages of life to tell stories about individual and collective experiences. Speech Acts, is a series in which María Paula enunciates different mental narratives through phrases in English and Spanish. The works record a diary of emotions, where she evokes romantic and suggestive images that respond to the mundane "doing". Language is the human being's own capacity to express thoughts and feelings through words. In this series, the research is based on a questioning of identity and representation. "Since I arrived in New York, language has been a very powerful tool. Working in two languages has allowed me to understand my realities from different perspectives, almost as if I were a different person in English, and another in Spanish. However, in what refers to the personal, the emotion, and the processes of self-knowledge (which is what I investigate through my work) the language blurs and other elements that refer to my emotions come into play". Speech acts is a series that understands the word as the mean in charge of showing intentions and feelings. The pieces respond to everyday thoughts where each phrase becomes an independent network that appeals to different emotions or states of the artist.
Speech acts A bilingual approach to literary landscapes María Paula Suárez has focused her research on resilience, self-knowledge and love. In her work, she uses complex layered embroideries along with evocative images of words and phrases on different types of paper. In these, the process becomes the means for the artist to reconsider, adapt and transform language for the different scenarios in which she employs it. Through her practice, the artist draws from multiple histories, systems and beliefs to produce a visual language that blurs the boundaries between the abstract and the figurative. Suarez draws inspiration from personal processes and different stages of life to tell stories about individual and collective experiences. Speech Acts, is a series in which María Paula enunciates different mental narratives through phrases in English and Spanish. The works record a diary of emotions, where she evokes romantic and suggestive images that respond to the mundane "doing". Language is the human being's own capacity to express thoughts and feelings through words. In this series, the research is based on a questioning of identity and representation. "Since I arrived in New York, language has been a very powerful tool. Working in two languages has allowed me to understand my realities from different perspectives, almost as if I were a different person in English, and another in Spanish. However, in what refers to the personal, the emotion, and the processes of self-knowledge (which is what I investigate through my work) the language blurs and other elements that refer to my emotions come into play". Speech acts is a series that understands the word as the mean in charge of showing intentions and feelings. The pieces respond to everyday thoughts where each phrase becomes an independent network that appeals to different emotions or states of the artist.
ARTIST STATEMENT Miriam Londoño's work is developed around paper, a material that lends itself to all kinds of conceptual and formal transformations. Instead of drawing or writing on paper, the artist uses the liquid pulp to trace letters and words as if weaving a web in space, her works are free supports that remain as writings and drawings in the air. The work abandons the two-dimensionality being suspended in the void and struggles with gravity and invites transparency through light. It is a writing-environment crossed and producing light and shadow. A writing that would speak as much for its exacerbated materiality, as for the hollowness and silence that crosses and inhabits it. Poetics of expanded paper made into a letter, line and ink, in dialogue with emptiness. The work invites the reader to an almost detective-like reading, to stop and observe between the words that are read and interwoven here and there, in order to unravel the text. The texts are based on fragments of Colombian and universal literature and poetry.
ARTIST STATEMENT Miriam Londoño's work is developed around paper, a material that lends itself to all kinds of conceptual and formal transformations. Instead of drawing or writing on paper, the artist uses the liquid pulp to trace letters and words as if weaving a web in space, her works are free supports that remain as writings and drawings in the air. The work abandons the two-dimensionality being suspended in the void and struggles with gravity and invites transparency through light. It is a writing-environment crossed and producing light and shadow. A writing that would speak as much for its exacerbated materiality, as for the hollowness and silence that crosses and inhabits it. Poetics of expanded paper made into a letter, line and ink, in dialogue with emptiness. The work invites the reader to an almost detective-like reading, to stop and observe between the words that are read and interwoven here and there, in order to unravel the text. The texts are based on fragments of Colombian and universal literature and poetry.
ARTIST STATEMENT Miriam Londoño's work is developed around paper, a material that lends itself to all kinds of conceptual and formal transformations. Instead of drawing or writing on paper, the artist uses the liquid pulp to trace letters and words as if weaving a web in space, her works are free supports that remain as writings and drawings in the air. The work abandons the two-dimensionality being suspended in the void and struggles with gravity and invites transparency through light. It is a writing-environment crossed and producing light and shadow. A writing that would speak as much for its exacerbated materiality, as for the hollowness and silence that crosses and inhabits it. Poetics of expanded paper made into a letter, line and ink, in dialogue with emptiness. The work invites the reader to an almost detective-like reading, to stop and observe between the words that are read and interwoven here and there, in order to unravel the text. The texts are based on fragments of Colombian and universal literature and poetry.
The work of the artist AnaMaria Gutierrez de Piñeres is based on a personal diary, that allows the development of a language that starts from the indecipherable. This kind of illegible calligraphy originates in a dream in which Gutiérrez de Piñeres experienced the inability to express where she could only communicate through incomprehensible letters and signs. As a result of this dreamlike experience, the artist's works present a series of compositions made with thin rods of treated wire, assembled and in an irregular pattern or support on a surface of paper on wood. Through tangles and entanglements of the metallic material, they are represented as messages on sheets of school notebook paper or suspended in the air where the shadows leave between reading what suggests an indecipherable text. The three-dimensionality that is assigned to this language from the contrast of light and shadows that it generates on the surface, produces in the eye of the observer the sensation of movement of this calligraphy, shadows and represented lines that encourage the free interpretation of the messages.
The work of the artist AnaMaria Gutierrez de Piñeres is based on a personal diary, that allows the development of a language that starts from the indecipherable. This kind of illegible calligraphy originates in a dream in which Gutiérrez de Piñeres experienced the inability to express where she could only communicate through incomprehensible letters and signs. As a result of this dreamlike experience, the artist's works present a series of compositions made with thin rods of treated wire, assembled and in an irregular pattern or support on a surface of paper on wood. Through tangles and entanglements of the metallic material, they are represented as messages on sheets of school notebook paper or suspended in the air where the shadows leave between reading what suggests an indecipherable text. The three-dimensionality that is assigned to this language from the contrast of light and shadows that it generates on the surface, produces in the eye of the observer the sensation of movement of this calligraphy, shadows and represented lines that encourage the free interpretation of the messages.
The work of the artist AnaMaria Gutierrez de Piñeres is based on a personal diary, that allows the development of a language that starts from the indecipherable. This kind of illegible calligraphy originates in a dream in which Gutiérrez de Piñeres experienced the inability to express where she could only communicate through incomprehensible letters and signs. As a result of this dreamlike experience, the artist's works present a series of compositions made with thin rods of treated wire, assembled and in an irregular pattern or support on a surface of paper on wood. Through tangles and entanglements of the metallic material, they are represented as messages on sheets of school notebook paper or suspended in the air where the shadows leave between reading what suggests an indecipherable text. The three-dimensionality that is assigned to this language from the contrast of light and shadows that it generates on the surface, produces in the eye of the observer the sensation of movement of this calligraphy, shadows and represented lines that encourage the free interpretation of the messages.
