Pantano
Group show by Julia Grunberg, Sofía Montenegro
Pantano
Group show by Julia Grunberg, Sofía Montenegro
9 September - 3 October 2021
PANTANO is an installation conceived specifically for EL CHICO, the result of a collaboration between Julia Grunberg (Madrid, 1988) and Sofia Montenegro (Madrid, 1988). Pantano is a raft rocking from side to side and from the outside to the inside, the lines of space blurring to take you deep down.
In this exhibition, Julia's work on design and pictorial research merges with Sofia's cinematic intervention: layers of paint, manipulated PVC pipes, natural sounds, transparencies, noises created with materials present in the exhibition, combinations of lights and reflections transporting us to another landscape. In these layers, there is a getting carried away with the materials with which the artists work, with the mere objective of losing oneself in the observation. Both artists intend to incite the imagination to raise other possibilities of that reality: to relocate you to a swamp.
In her artistic work, Sofia Montenegro focuses on ways to produce images in the imagination. Her practice incorporates diverse methodologies that link the visual to the auditory and the performative to transform the perception of what is observed; always in search of a magical and fictitious aspect of reality.
On the other hand, Julia Grunberg is interested in domestic spaces, specifically in the meaning of vertical walls as a spacial divider and its material capacities. Her work challenges the perfection of the rigid, flat wall finished in matte white paint that determines the experience of interior and everyday spaces, and how they can lead to a meditative state.
This is the second collaboration of both artists. In 2016 they came together to create QUIETO thanks to an INJUVE Creation grant, an installation of mobile curtains facilitating a multiple and dynamic experience of the space.
In this exhibition, Julia's work on design and pictorial research merges with Sofia's cinematic intervention: layers of paint, manipulated PVC pipes, natural sounds, transparencies, noises created with materials present in the exhibition, combinations of lights and reflections transporting us to another landscape. In these layers, there is a getting carried away with the materials with which the artists work, with the mere objective of losing oneself in the observation. Both artists intend to incite the imagination to raise other possibilities of that reality: to relocate you to a swamp.
In her artistic work, Sofia Montenegro focuses on ways to produce images in the imagination. Her practice incorporates diverse methodologies that link the visual to the auditory and the performative to transform the perception of what is observed; always in search of a magical and fictitious aspect of reality.
On the other hand, Julia Grunberg is interested in domestic spaces, specifically in the meaning of vertical walls as a spacial divider and its material capacities. Her work challenges the perfection of the rigid, flat wall finished in matte white paint that determines the experience of interior and everyday spaces, and how they can lead to a meditative state.
This is the second collaboration of both artists. In 2016 they came together to create QUIETO thanks to an INJUVE Creation grant, an installation of mobile curtains facilitating a multiple and dynamic experience of the space.