Camila Rodríguez Triana, Tierra tel Vientre, 2023, exhibition view at MIRA Art Fair. Image courtesy of Galerie BAO.
Vita Contemplativa - The Poetry of Story Telling, is a group exhibition reuniting Violeta Cruz, Léo Lescop, César Cuspoca, Camila Eslava and Camila Rodríguez Triana.
Inherited from philosophy - from Plato to Byung-Chul Han - vita contemplativa designates a way of being in the world based on listening, slowness, silence and thought. It stands againts the tide of vita activa, which dominates today: a life of agitation, hyperactivity, productivity, where each gesture seems to have to be justified by its effectiveness or visibility.
To contemplate, is to stop acting in order to receive. It is as if entering into a relationship sacred to the world, where the sacred is no longer external, transcended, but internal: in the depths, in the obscure, in the withdrawn. Art here takes the form of a ritual, a silent celebration of what remains and what disappears. The artworks whisper the Earth and the original meaning of things. It celebrates the artistic gesture as a silent ritual that unfolds through space and time.
The artists gathered in this exhibition don’t only talk about the world: they talk with it. Each artistic gesture is a silent ritual that stretches through space and time. Like bearers of meaning, these gestures invite us to reflect on our own nature, with the matter that nourishes us, the aerth, which keeps us alive and to which we will return one day
Curated by : Sandrine Prévost-Servent
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