EL ABRAZO DEL RENACO
2024
El abrazo del renacoexplores how the traces left by the displacements of different beings affect, transform and often devastate the environment we share. Three examples unfold in this narrative: the deforestation furrows that roads trace in the Amazon, the tunnels that wood-boring beetles excavate in tree trunks, and the network of roots that strangler figs weave around their plant hosts in tropical forests. Each of these movements draws a pattern, a map of lines that repeats the same outcome: the destruction of the support where these traces are established.
Each of the exhibited works formalizes in different ways the typology of lines proposed by the anthropologist Tim Ingold: threads and traces. The traces, like the roads and tunnels of the boring beetles, are reductive lines that eliminate material and leave a permanent mark on the territory. Threads, on the other hand, like the roots of ficus trees - which, although they suffocate their supporting tree - represent living, three-dimensional connections that provide support and sustenance to their environment.
The publication that accompanies the exhibition not only examines the relationships between these typologies, but intertwines them with histories, practices, and forms of coexistence that challenge the fragility of the places we inhabit. Here, the line is not just a trace in space; it is a story, a scar, a possibility.
