The moment is then glimpsed, the fire is lit, and the fire burns, burns, flames.
Forming a retrospective constellation ranging from works made in the last year to earlier works, Doblar la tierra emerges from the tensions between a sense of familiarity and a latent strangeness, to delve into the subtleties of a particular immediacy that is also collective. In all of this there is a ritualistic quality that is evident in how Arce treats space, referencing other rhythms of life and work. However, it is the incorporation of mundane objects that produces a sense of familiarity and introspection. Taking quotes drawn from the history of recent literature, objects halted at some point in their material transformation and mundane artifacts that are constantly rearranged, the artist places the dispersion of objects, images or seeds on the same level. Arce points to the meeting spaces between popular matter, the cyclical trajectories of nature and the structures of collective memory to offer a dimension that is both landscape and chroma.
Up the hill, one by one, the green lights melt away.
