You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
It is a good day when I see you,
powder-red bloom
on a floating branch.
Or hear you, sliding your one note
barbershop style.
You are always a distance
from me–I try
to get close.
When the sun has hardly risen,
I step quietly
through the woods,
find your shape. Say
to myself: hide,
desire. Yours are not the kind
of hands
to catch this kind of bird.
– Bird in the Head by Ailish Hopper
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.
–(from Macbeth, spoken by Macbeth) by William Shakespeare
“… to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players” (GZ)
Via Juan Canela:
La serie “Field Guide (Guía de campo)” de Adler Guerrier incluye fotografías, obras en papel y grabados en tela en diálogo con pensamientos sobre los espacios caribeños, ritos, gestos simbólicos y el marco cultural de su paisaje. Las obras reflejan un compromiso continuo con el estudio del lugar, lo que contiene y la interpretación de sus texturas como forma y lenguaje, tanto literario como visual.
En cada lugar donde presenta la serie, Guerrier considera un aspecto particular del sitio, definido por una escala íntima y un uso cotidiano modesto, que se convierte en el espacio para un discurso sostenido sobre lo material, lo social y lo aspiracional.
Para la 23 Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guerrier desarrolla una instalación de obras nuevas destinadas a un espectador en Antigua Guatemala, que conocerá el paisaje de la diáspora negra Miami-Haití-Caribe. Trabajando en este campo y con estos pensamientos, Guerrier comprende el lugar y el paisaje como sitio y escenario. A través de sus obras, reordena las narrativas, los objetos y las relaciones para enmendar
lo encontrado y establecido por la historia, actualizándolos con los lenguajes de lo imaginario.
Registro fotográfico: dirección de arte, Karen Bethancourt; producción, Byron Mármol.
Cortesía de Fundación Paiz
“bebí palabras sumergidas en sueños”
Curadores: Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig (@fbirbragher) y Juan Canela (@juan_canela_)
Asamblea curatorial: Minia Biabiany, Marilyn Boror Bor, Duen Sacchi y Juana Valdés
Programa de saberes compartidos, @esperanzadeleon3
Actividades: 30 de marzo al 30 de julio
Exposición: 13 al 30 de julio
“I have faltered in my appointed duty.
It is a small sacrilege, a minor heresy.
To whom is their offering rendered,
and from whom derived,
these fallen things
[…]its fragrance is a tendril
connecting my mind to the rain,
a root, a tap, a tether.
–Campbell McGrath, Late Spring.
“There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.” (GZ)
Cuckoo Is in the Nest by Daniel Pemberton, Amsterdam.
Bolster our psychological immune system (via theguardian) : position our perspective in a neutral zone rather than see through a negative bias; try to be in present moment; aim for the meaningful and purposeful; accept how, where/when, and what we are while we are in as we experience difficulties in life.
“… And I ordered my heart to be patient: Be neutral as if you were not of me!” – (Mahmoud Darwish)
“a gate was … an indication that you had left one space and were entering another. […] life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through.
[…]The greatest pleasures of his life had been when he was by her side, playing or inventing.”
-(GZ)
“Only the wayward appreciated her riotous conduct and wild habits and longing to create a life from nothing … only they could discern the beautiful plot … desire for an elsewhere and an otherwise … a notion of the possible whose outlines were fuzzy and amorphous” (SH)
“[Beauty], where one wishes to go”
“The meaning subverts the form, and elegance of form is always capable of being corrupted by what meaning it delivers.” (RS)