PROCESOS VISIBLES
PROCESOS VISIBLES
(December 2020 Edition)
ASUNCIÓN MOLINOS GORDO
Selected by the curator Virginia Torrente. Represented by Travesía Cuatro
STATEMENT
Asunción Molinos Gordo is a researcher and visual artist. Her practice is strongly influenced by disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and cultural studies.
The main focus of her work is contemporary peasantry and its cultural production. She questions the categories that define “innovation” in mainstream discourses today, working to generate a less urban-centric way of understanding progress.
She has produced work reflecting on land usage, nomad architecture, farmers’ strikes, bureaucracy on territory, transformation of rural labor, biotechnology and global food trade.
ACTIVITIES WITH THE ARTIST* (Only available in Spanish)
STATEMENT
In my work there is an insistence on the habitability of spaces, which leads to a questioning of the "domestication" of the modern inhabitant, the consumption of certain formalizations and objects in the interiors of current homes, as well as an autobiographical reference that articulates a discourse on individual and collective memory.
In that recurrence to the image of places and their appropriation through art, in my work, currently, the city, the public space, appears as the privileged scene of everyday life, with its wealth, misery and creative potential. Through series of drawings, photographs, site specifics, sculptures, inspired by objects from our consumer society and the city; how in the control and separation devices of urban space. My work talks about how we identify with our environment and its architecture, and how they influence us.
Distinguishing between the lived, experiential or existential space that operates unconsciously, and the physical and geometric space. I also emphasize different intellectual states that are produced when relating to our immediate surroundings, how the importance of peripheral vision that integrates us in space, and makes us see details and situations that sometimes go unnoticed, going from being mere spectators to be stimulated towards other muscular and tactile sensations.
The body as a place of perception, where our memory capacity would be impossible without a body memory, we remember through our bodies as well as through our nervous system.