Tell Me What Red Is
Detail | Tell Me What Red Is | 2023
Detail | Tell Me What Red Is | 2023
Detail | Tell Me What Red Is | 2023
Installation view | Tell Me What Red Is | 2023
Detail | Tell Me What Red Is | 2023
This exhibition brings together some of Roldan’s most recent works that allude to the possibility of creating a series of realities where poetry is the source of a utopian solution to contemporaneity. Within this logic, the materials she uses are fundamental keys to decode the narrative that the artist proposes. Using different media ranging from performance, sculpture or print, Roldan’s purpose is to create a particular universe in which all the elements are connected and at the same time related to ideas and concepts originated by cultural phenomena. Using notions originating in philosophical thought, for example from psychoanalysis, cultural studies, or from the production of other artists who constantly nourish her work, Ana Roldan questions the foundations of modern thought in which the natural and human worlds are separated by artificiality. Therefore, stones, bones, natural fibers, are combined with mirrors, acrylics and 3D prints in a game of ambivalences in which the wound between the artificial and the natural is healed. Each piece in this exhibition is a narrative exercise for the viewer to give a new meaning to the ways in which he observes his reality.
la posibilidad de crear una serie de realidades donde la poesía es la fuente de una
solución utópica a la contemporaneidad.
Dentro de esta lógica, los materiales que utiliza son claves fundamentales para
decodificar la narrativa que la artista propone. Usando distintos medios que van
desde el performance, escultura o impresión, el propósito de Roldan es crear un
universo particular en el que todos los elementos entran conectados y a la vez se
relacionan con ideas y conceptos originados por los fenómenos culturales.
Usando nociones originadas en el pensamiento filosófico, por ejemplo, del
psicoanálisis, de los estudios culturales, o de la producción de otros artistas que
constantemente nutren su obra, Ana Roldan, cuestiona los fundamentos del
pensamiento moderno en el que el mundo natural y el humano están separados por
medio de la artificialidad. Entonces, piedras, huesos, fibras naturales, son
combinadas con espejos, acrílicos e impresiones 3D en un juego de ambivalencias
en el que se cura la herida entre lo artificial y natural. Cada pieza presente en esta
exposición es un ejercicio narrativo para que el espectador de un nuevo sentido a
las maneras como observa su realidad.