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2024 Caminar montañas mientras respiro esculturas. Galería Juan Silió. Madrid

«When I hug a friend, wrapping my arms around his neck - it's natural; when I tell it - it's unnatural (to myself!). When I transform it into poetry - it becomes natural again. Actions and poetry justify me. That which lies between the two - blames me».

Tsvetáieva, M. (1984) Correspondence from the summer of 1926. Tsvetáieva, Rilke, Pasternak. Mexico: Ed. Siglo XXI. Trad. Ancira, S. p. 184.

This series of sculptures arises from the observation of the demolition of a large STASI building on the other side of my studio window in Berlin. 

The material, which had been historical space and now made into mountains of jumbled debris. Over the months they have been dissected and placed equally in accumulations of similar natures; metals, woods, cements, earths. Thinking and feeling their emotionality, I began to wonder what they contained of myself, of the reality that no longer existed, or did? Walking those mountains became routine. Observing them. I began to collect and store some of the pipes, perforated lines that were now woven into the air of my studio. They were there, like a cloud of suspended dust. 

I began to work from space from where I could examine these remains in an unusual way, where they revealed themselves as strange. Just as it happens in dreams.

Through these remains, as Sloterdijk describes, -one sees at a glance what one is: one's character, one's mood, one's history, one's essence, one's future, all embodied in a bodily hieroglyphic that is perfectly decipherable before our eyes; ...because it constitutes the quintessence of all that one signifies and betrays oneself. (...) A glance in the mirror (...) then one recognises oneself: the wrinkles, the crevices, the layers, the traces-.

In the reorganisation and through a relational practice or relocation, an involuntary process of rhyme takes place. I understand all the remains that are the matrix of these sculptures as something ‘cosmic’ that is a specific way of generating poems of our present time, these objects, like syllables, are articulated through a relational process forming new words, a new language, theirs, that I learn and intuit and babble.

Núria Fuster

General view "Caminar montañas mientras respiro esculturas". Juan Silió Gallery.

Photo: Roberto Ruiz

En suspensión I, 2024. Glazed ceramic, metal and steel cable, 100x20x20cm.

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Abrazo térmico, 2024. Remaining pipe recovered from a demolished STASI building (Berlin), welded iron and angora wool, 167x110x117cm.

Fang Còsmic, 2024. Remaining pipes recovered from a demolished STASI building (Berlin) and glazed ceramics, 80x230x50cm.

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General view "Caminar montañas mientras respiro esculturas". Juan Silió Gallery. Photo: Roberto Ruiz

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Canto II, 2024. Remaining pipe recovered from a demolished STASI building (Berlin) and stainless steel tripod, 173x60x65cm.

Caminando montañas mientras respiro esculturas, 2024. Recovered stainless steel tubing, welded stainless steel structure, fabric and glazed ceramic, 60x215x120cm.

General view "Caminar montañas mientras respiro esculturas". Juan Silió Gallery. Photo: Roberto Ruiz

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Centipede, 2024. Remaining pipework recovered from a demolished STASI building (Berlin) and fringes, 200x160x47cm.

Sonido crustáceo, 2024. Remaining of metal structure recovered from a demolished STASI building (Berlin) and rattles, 85x76x55cm.

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Lluvia sorda, 2024. Digital print on sheet music paper, 29,7x21cm.

DOL, 2024. Remaining pipe recovered from a demolished STASI building (Berlin), fringes and steel cable, 239x70x15cm.

Óxido, 2024. Digital print on invoicing paper, 29,7x21cm.

Ya, 2024. Digital print on invoicing paper, 29,7x21cm.

General view "Caminar montañas mientras respiro esculturas". Juan Silió Gallery. Photo: Roberto Ruiz

En suspensión II, 2024. Glazed ceramics, recovered pipe scrap from a demolished STASI building (Berlin), silver spoon and steel cable, 216x60x20cm.

Canto I, 2024. Remaining pipework recovered from a demolished STASI building (Berlin) and stainless steel structure, 173x245x65cm.

Canto I, 2024. Digital print on invoicing paper, 29,7x21cm.

Canto II, 2024. Digital print on invoicing paper, 29,7x21cm.

Muntanya, 2024. Remaining pipe recovered from a demolished STASI building (Berlin) and chair structure, 200x40x60cm.

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