AGAINST FORGETTING.Tributes and Offerings
CarrerasMugica•Sep 19, 2025 — Dec 06, 2025
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The first works in this exhibition date back to 2020 and 2021, just after I had finished sorting through the work of my friend Isabel Baquedano. My testing return to sculpture has been guided by her memory—how she entrusted the work itself to the vicissitudes of the very act of painting—taking the freedom to pursue it day by day without worrying whether I get it wrong or not.
I feel as if not a lot of time has passed since then, maybe because the pieces needed to be isolated from the dizzying speed of what is going on in the world, where things seem to come from nothing and return to nothing without leaving any trace. And I would like to believe that, having committed ourselves to dismantling the master signifiers of our adventures, and thus becoming orphans of totalizing narratives, we would have to pay careful attention to the little “inventions” that arise unexpectedly, pregnant with contingency it is true though mindful of what has no...More
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AGAINST FORGETTING.Tributes and Offerings
CarrerasMugica•Sep 19, 2025 — Dec 06, 2025
Press Release
The first works in this exhibition date back to 2020 and 2021, just after I had finished sorting through the work of my friend Isabel Baquedano. My testing return to sculpture has been guided by her memory—how she entrusted the work itself to the vicissitudes of the very act of painting—taking the freedom to pursue it day by day without worrying whether I get it wrong or not.
I feel as if not a lot of time has passed since then, maybe because the pieces needed to be isolated from the dizzying speed of what is going on in the world, where things seem to come from nothing and return to nothing without leaving any trace. And I would like to believe that, having committed ourselves to dismantling the master signifiers of our adventures, and thus becoming orphans of totalizing narratives, we would have to pay careful attention to the little “inventions” that arise unexpectedly, pregnant with contingency it is true though mindful of what has no...More
