THE UNFINISHED STORIES OF LILIANA PORTER
Liliana Porter (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1941) has a long history shared with Espacio Minimo. The Madrid gallery pampers every move and celebrates the extensive relationship with the Argentinean artist, always offering her the possibility of receiving her work and witnessing its evolution. For the opening of the space's season, the landing is called Otros cuentos inconclusos, a new proposal that deals with representation and two dimensional axes —space and time— that bear witness to many of the questions raised about human relations.
Placed to use the emptiness of space, even if it is her own choice, Liliana Porter deploys her pre-existing ingenuity to represent situations and dialogues between environment and object, between memory and subjectivity itself, which exerts its power when it comes to formalizing and materializing this traced chance. With this, an attempt is made to provide an answer to those doubts and questions of a relational nature that develop in spaces that are not circumscribed to a specific time or place.
This can be clearly seen in La Barrendera, a large-scale installation that presides over the entrance to the space and that assumes, with visual impact, the ability to translate this idea into something physical, even though the concept is bordering on the immaterial. Although a certain reminiscence can be found in this work of his series Trabajos forzados, nothing can be the same as the rest, both because of the substitution and incorporation of the situational and because of a certain subjective energy that emerges from the fact of memory and its importance in the construction of personality.
A closer look at the objectual display leads us to those signs of reference that reappear in Porter's imaginary, but, above all, to certain antagonistic and impossible games that build on these relational possibilities. An aesthetic character also reigns over all of this, practically complementary or representative of the quasi-political optimism that the artist champions.
In addition to the main piece, the exhibition includes several installations and small and medium-sized works that are aware of their almost complementary role, a role that could also be assumed by the video Cuentos inconclusos, the result of the artistic complicity between Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1951), where perception and narrative power are also at stake.
Otros cuentos inconclusos can be seen until November 8 at Espacio Mínimo, 17 Doctor Fourquet St., Madrid (Spain).
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