Frieze London 2021

This presentation is based on two discourses: on the one hand, the work of the Colombian collective Mazenett Quiroga and on the other, the sculptural work of the Brazilian artist Vanessa Da Silva. Starting from a reflection based on classical concepts of philosophy, such as body, space and intimacy, we question again the position of contemporary subjects amidst a crisis as fundamental as the one we are experiencing.

For the philosopher Sloterdijk, the sphere is the original form that contains the symbolic and mythical force of the course of history. Within his logic, each dimension (from the most intimate, passing through the erotic, the domestic and the cultural to the universal) is understood as sphere contained in a series of other spheres which, as they explode like bubbles, give way to crisis that release the energies transforming history. In this way we can understand this presentation as a transversal reading of the present in which different dimensions are boiling at the same time and in which changes, that affect all representations of reality, are being generated.

Both the work of Da Silva and Mazenett Quiroga are fundamental to digest this current crisis manifested in every level of human existence. From the scientific or poetic understanding of the universe, to methodologies of intimate behavior, all have been affected by an extreme change of paradigms. From this conversation between the themes proposed by these practices, it is possible to access an understanding of the present free of political or aesthetic prejudices.