Until next April 20, the Fundación Casa de Mexico brings to Madrid the artist Ale de la Puente, pioneer in combining art with science. The exhibition is named after the main work Turbulencias del vacío (Vacuum Turbulence), a multidisciplinary piece that mixes textile art, sound and light.
Curated by Graciela Kasep, the exhibition is designed through a journey that brings together eight works, grouping elements that combine visual metaphors and narrative texts in a manner of dialogue. The sample names that which is not palpable and transforms invisible phenomena into something poetic visible. Culminates in an immersive installation, where the visual, sound and subtle forms of vacuum are materialized for the viewer to contemplate. This proposal of Ale de la Puente is, in essence, an invitation to discover how the active observation the imperceptible.
The exhibition invites us to explore the invisible phenomena that surround us through a poetics of emptiness and observation. From materials such as silk, wool, sulphur, silicates, sound and light, the artist builds maps and constellations of works that reveal the complexity of the imperceptible, of movements and dynamics that occur continuously but escape our sight. Each work becomes a silent testimony of our environment, intertwining the qualities of clouds and quantum physics to reinterpret the intangible and challenge our way of observing the world.
The tour is complemented by the projection of five videos created by the artist in which she proposes different reflections on art, movement, history and nature: It was also so although it was not the same (2010), Comes slow, almost from nowhere (2007), The present takes time to become past (2006), Closer to nothing (2023) and Dividing between down and up (2015).
Two Thursdays a month will be complemented by the performance of Samantha Escobar and Engel de Jesús, Mexican dancers from the dance company Nacho Duato Academy. The dates of the performances will be held two Thursdays a month from 18:00 to 18:30, on the following dates: 23 January, 6 and 20 February, 6 and 20 March and 3 April.
