Recovered Matter, Suspended Time, Active Silence
Recovered Matter, Suspended Time, Active Silence brings together the practices of Pascale Fournier, Alfredo Romero, Rainer Lagemann, and Gustavo Tanus in a dialogue in which matter ceases to function as mere support and becomes a sensitive archive. In this convergence of languages, materials not only contain history: they activate it, translate it, and transform it into perceptual experience.
PASCALE FOURNIER
Fournier works with recovered materials that she collects in different territories and weaves into her works, activating the memory of place and capturing the essence of their origin. Each piece functions as an affective map in which the artisanal gesture becomes a way of recording the landscape, movement, and time.
RAINER LAGEMANN
Rainer introduces movement and suspended silhouettes through rigid materials such as steel, challenging their apparent inflexibility to construct images of fragility and absence. His pieces evoke the melancholy of a presence that is no longer there: bodies halted in an intermediate time, where the gesture remains suspended and silence becomes eloquent.
ALFREDO ROMERO
An interdisciplinary artistic project that explores social memory, urban landscapes, and the passage of time through painted facades and signs. Using the Strappo technique, Alfredo Romero rescues fragments of visual history, transforming them into reflections on childhood, identity, and collective memory.
GUSTAVO TANÚS
Tanus, by contrast, deliberately moves away from utilitarian ceramics to emphasize the role of fire as a transformative agent. In his pieces, matter manifests in its most raw and essential state, establishing an open dialogue from a brutalist aesthetic. Form does not seek to impose itself, but rather allows the material itself to reveal its limits, tensions, and possibilities, offering a new reading of its nature.
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