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TEXTUM Grazalema / Cádiz Inauguration: saturday 5 de September 2015 at 19:30 h En NEILSON GALLERY, Grazalema, until 24 September 2015 Comisariada por : Alicia Chillida THE WEIGHT OF A THREAD “The language that women speak when no one is there to correct them.” (Hélène Cixous) “I don’t understand contemporary art, but what I do know is that it’s about making something new out of something old.” (María Luisa Derqui) To write as if one were weaving, with all one’s soul, with all one’s body, with pain and with joy, as if giving birth. The first material woman uses to create and project herself is cloth; it is a promise of identity, of self- our presence in this world. To weave is to cultivate.. (Alicia Chillida) |
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There are sophisticated metric systems to weigh matter, many extremely precise lenses to observe the stars and watches to measure time. Yet no one has found something capable of quantifying the weight of poetry. Heartened by an ancestral understanding and guided by her intuition, Millán moves forward in a luminous sequence, supported by the lightness of a thread. The nomadic quality of the work of Pilar Millan, forever incomplete, goes on and adds a blue chapter to this constant journey, which is that of her own existence.
TEXTUM GRAZALEMA/ CÁDIZ is part of a project based on the theme of communication Through various recordings, the artist creates a unified geographic area that includes audio and visual documentation.
As pillars of the project there is on the one hand , the spoken word as a link of different languages reflected in the voices of the weavers , and secondly, their means of expression , seen in the pictures taken on the looms, the textile colonies end product made in the workshop, which also involves the concept of voice.
The looms although thousands of kilometres apart yet share the same language. Galicia , Andalucia ( Grazalema ) , the cotton fields of Niger in Africa and the textile colonies of the Ter Llobregat in Catalonia are seen through photography , video and objects and the different voices of those who made this exposition possible .
PILAR MILLÁN (El Ferrol, 1962)
Licenced in Bellas Artes, Universidad de Sevilla 1998/2003.
Since 2014 she lives and works in Berlín.
Her projects are based on the social and cultural fronters using photography, video, instalation and painting
Since 2003 she has exhibited in CCCB of Barcelona, Museo Provincial de Cádiz y Baluarte de la Candelaria in 2007, Sala Santa Inés en Sevilla en 2009 o Universitat de Barcelona recientemente. Participó en el año 2010 en la exposición colectiva 'Miradas singulares, voces plurales', organizada por la Fundación Provincial de Cultura en cooperación con el servicio de Igualdad de Diputación. En los últimos años ha sido autora de la escenografía para la obra de teatro La Noche de Max Estrella, Círculo de BB AA, Madrid 2012, seleccionada por la Fundación Pilar Citoler, PhotoEspaña, Madrid 2012; el Forum Eugenio de Almeida, Évora 2013; Festival MM La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2014 y seleccionada para formar parte del archivo internacional de artistas Berlinerpool, Berlín 2014. De su participación en ARTifariti, Tindouf, Algeria, 2014, nace una colaboración con Federico Guzmán, que se expuso en el Palacio de Cristal, MNCARS (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía) en primavera del 2015.
Virginia Arizaga Garmendia
Fundación Provincial de Cultura Diputación de Cádiz