Installations
- of This Thread that Still Connects us 25 de February de 2018
- of Navigation and Cataloguing 15 de January de 2018
- of Family and Families 30 de December de 2017
- of Water and Lime 30 de November de 2017
- of Books and Homes 30 de October de 2017
- of Parties and de/Feats 30 de September de 2017
- of Visions of the Future 30 de August de 2017
- Trilogy of privacy 17 de June de 2016
- AntiKeres 14 de June de 2015
- Domus aurea 15 de June de 2014
- Sibyl 16 de February de 2013
- Tongue 18 de January de 2012
- In Des/Time 30 de May de 2010
- Press still lifes 21 de June de 2009
- The eighth weapon 20 de June de 2008
- Tango 30 de May de 2007
- Showcase 30 de May de 2006
2004-06 Sibyl
With Nora Ancarola
Myths remain unaltered, but their form and their interpretation varies over the centuries, And it is in this continuous narrative transformation that the last sense of their meaning is hidden.
Originally, myths are revelation, and, like the revelation it is, the myth of the Sybils (who themselves reveal) is the materialisation of revelation itself, a body of epiphany.
Though inclined towards reason, the Greek spirit recognised the limits of intellect, making the figure of the Sybils the enigma of all mysteries. Such responsibility left these women exhausted and incapable of fulfilling any other function. Abandoning herself to sleep, the Sybil of Delphos always awoke sobbing every time she was called by the journey of the senses. The Sybil of Cumae wandered, condemned for her unconsciousness, ageing almost eternally and harbouring only one desire: the rest that death would bring for her. Because these priestesses of Zeus, gifted but abused by the gods for having faithfully accepted the role they had assigned to them, were often accompanied by a desire for death, maintaining the purity that made them an unpolluted vessel for collective memory.
The story of the Sybils appears to reflect our incapability of recognising ourselves in the mystery of oblivion.
According to Emilio Lledó, our contemporary history is an invitation to «dememorise», because we fear experience and learning. Ultimately we fear learning our lesson, submerging ourselves in the oblivion of the fount of death, absence and emptiness.
The myth of the Sybil transcends time and comes down to us, via the spirit of the lost, as the legend of a wise organiser of memory - the memory of ethics and the true revelation: the present is appearance, the past is experience and the future depends only on our lucid understanding.
ROUTE
2006 - Galeria Zenit, Copenhagen. Denmark.
2005 - SKC, Belgrade. Serbia and Montenegro.
2004 - La Interior Bodega - Flux Space, Barcelona. Catalonia.
TEXTS
PLAZA, E. - Female Temporality in a Rereading of the Myth of the Sibyl. PDF 114 Kb
SAVIC, G - Entrevista a Nora Ancarola y Marga Ximenez. CAS. PDF 15 Kb
Privacy trilogy. Catalog. CAT CAS ENG. PDF 7,4 Mb
