2015 Cuando el fuego apaga el huracán. Galería Marta Cervera. Madrid

General view "Cuando el fuego apaga el huracán". Galería Marta Cervera.
"Cuando el fuego apaga el huracán" brings together the most recent body of work by Nuria Fuster (Alcoy, Alicante, 1978). In her third solo exhibition at the Marta Cervera gallery, the artist returns to the field of phenomenology, focusing on this occasion on its interdependence with the human psyche. From this premise, Fuster explores how this bidirectional relationship gives rise to situations of disorientation, anguish, obsession, anxiety or need, while seeking in matter a channel of mediation.
These new works show a special interest in matter in extreme conditions, both physical and affective. Each of the sculptures and photographs presented to us have been literally subjected, with all the weight that the word throws at them. Different processes of combustion (real and digital), fractionation and domination invade the works, generating a tormented atmosphere where the narratives linked to the objects bring their psychic potential into play. Unfolding the cathartic capacity of matter, Fuster approaches a reparation that is not always possible, being those borderline points that generate reactions, altering and recomposing reality, the ones that interest the artist.
An installation of steel plates shows the imprecise point from which Nuria's work emerges. The three compositions, tied by chains to a metal bar, move ambiguously between subjects and objects. Even fractioned and subdued, they continue to demonstrate the uncontrollable capacity of the object by means of which it becomes a space for speculation.
On the other hand, the series of photographs shows an evolution with respect to previous series of a more abstract nature. On this occasion we not only recognise what is represented, but it is also the two-dimensional translation of certain objects found in space, thus multiplying their capacity of reach. In these pieces the artist has transferred combustion, a common sculptural process in her practice, to the field of the image, making colour behave in the same way as temperature. Digitally burned, their standards of warmth have been raised to unsustainable levels of temperature, affecting their integrity and placing the image on the margins of the ‘’balanced‘’.
Fuster is obsessed by this projection that physical reality imposes on us, hence this gradual repetition in which the object has been burnt, subjected, transferred to different supports and worn to exhaustion, in a kind of psychological sequence of gradual intensity.
"Cuando el fuego apaga el huracán" reveals in the materials a self-organised cosmos that interferes with our psychic dynamics. While examining the inseparable link between human production, affect and matter, the exhibition generates an experience that pushes any stable perception of reality to its limits.



Alquimia urbana 03, 2015. C-Print on Hahnemuhle fine art, 80x60cm.

Brain, 2015. Bronze, leather, 80x20x13cm.


General view "Cuando el fuego apaga el huracán". Galería Marta Cervera.

Alquimia urbana 02, 2015. C-Print on Hahnemuhle fine art, 60x60cm.

Alquimia urbana 04, 2015. C-Print on Hahnemuhle fine art, 80x60cm.


Face III, 2015. Iron, blanket, 203x180cm.

El Dorado, 2015. Brass, burnt wood, branch and nylon, variable measures.



I love you, 2015. Iron, chain, 201cm.


Face I, 2015. Iron, inflatable mattress, 185x175cm.

Ashes, 2015. Mixed media, variable measures.