Ballet de gigantes (Ballet of Giants), 2013.
Elastic bands enveloping, connecting and twisting space, a gymnastic that allows in situ improvisation, demanding an understanding and a practice based on the logic and the possibilities offered by space.
I’m terribly incapable of inventing anything. It’s an impossible plan for me. In turn, surroundings, approximations, are the best destinations for my visions and thoughts, trained to work with the possibilities that lie within things to become unusual and with the infinite opportunities offered by spaces, objects and situations, always understanding transformation as a necessity of our environment.
We enter the library and see special lines traced by black elastic bands that interlace columns, go through, ascend to the columns in the Café, come down again and wrap around a book.
The idea is to propose possibilities for new visual perceptions starting at points inherent the building’s architecture, changing rythms and adding elastic and mixed up lines projected in strange ways.
I like to think of the installation as a flexible grouping that points to the multiple displacements that can be produced, for a possible performatic action by the visitor, given in the movement of the objects wrapped by the elastic bands, would modify the drawings and visual weaving that the “mobile lines” achieve in space.
Each idea, each image that I construct always emerges from a story that combines the loosest logic and the most solid fantasy. There isn’t a single way to explain what we see. The conceptual mediation between the world and each one of us creates a space where everything becomes multiple. From the itinerary of a fly or the traces left by a pair of dancing, giants ghosts. Or to also discover the trajectory of a nervous bird that aimlessly flew through the room, trying to find a way out.
CV
Mariana Telleria (Rufino, Santa Fe, 1979) Visual artist. She studied Fine Arts in the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Among her awards are Premio Hartaba - Petrobrás 2011; a participation in The Ungovernables, New Museum Triennial 2012, and the Braque Prize in 2013. Among her individual exhibitions are: Los Ángeles, Galería Ruth Ensacar (Buenos Aires, 2013); La mujer serruchada, Museo Diario La Capital; El mundo no existe, Galería Alberto Sendrós, Mortal Kombat, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2011), El nombre de un país, Galería Alberto Sendrós (2009), Último lugar, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Rosario, 2007). She also participated in numerous collective exhibitions: El primer momento de la existencia de algo, Estadio River Plate; Allí, Allá, Plataforma Bogotá, Colombia (2012), LXV Salón Nacional de Rosario, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes, Rosario, Arte de Santa Fe, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario (2011), arteBA 2010, Stand Galería Alberto Sendrós, Buenos Aires, LXII Salón Nacional de Rosario, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario. Concurso 50º Aniversario del Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2008).
She lives and works in Rosario.