- Exhibition program
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- Artist
- Paula García-Masedo
- Dates
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- Place
- Espai 13
- Curated by
- Carolina Jiménez
To See After Nature takes the sensible experience of territory as its starting point, developing artistic logics for modes of perception that are porous to what the rural encompasses. The exhibition's title, borrowed from those who quoted Paul Cézanne, refers to what the painter believed: feeling in the most exact way, that nature is in depth.
The room contains a single piece. Its placement acknowledges the dominant relationship of the gaze that the space's architecture implies, like observing a landscape from its highest point or contemplating a large painting from a distance. The work is then perceived through bodily movement, in a fragmented and tactile manner.
To See After Nature is made with local materials-old linen and plants from a oak forest in the Sierra de Guadarrama, used to create paper-and shaped through elementary operations: compression forces that are retained or released. The piece responds to 19th-century Spanish landscape painting that portrayed this territory plein air, honoring what was learned from the peasant class that shaped this land over centuries.
The practice of Paula García-Masedo (Madrid, 1984) reorganises attention on the establishment of forms by observing through sculpture the relationship that exists between matter and external causes. García-Masedo's work develops through series of operations that give rise to specific situations of order and presence and contribute to the perception of genealogical relationships.
Her work has been shown at the CA2M (Madrid), Patio Herreriano (Valladolid), La Capella (Barcelona), TEA (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), the Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Madrid), La Casa Encendida (Madrid) and Fabra i Coats (Barcelona), among other spaces. She has curated exhibitions at CentroCentro (Madrid), Liga DF (Mexico City) and Monoambiente (Buenos Aires). She cofounded Pols (Valencia) and has had two books published by Caniche editorial.
