DESMEDIR

About

ARTIST: MATHIAS ESCOTTO GADEA (MASCOGA)

SOUND DESIGN: DARÍO DORNEL (KIRAP)

CURATED BY: IREN RUSSO

LOCATION: Bulowstrasse 11, 10789, Berlin

EXHIBITION DURATION: 04.12.2021 - 25.12.2021

VERNISSAGE: 03.12.2021 AT 7P.M.

 DESMEDIR is created to compose the work with the sense of going backward, not only to that which was measured but also to the questioning of what we know today as such. 

The artist points out DESMEDIR not as a term opposed to measuring; but in case it were, he asks, what would we be unmeasuring? What we do know is that we measure all the time, objectives, attitudes, distances, flights, words and their reactions; we measure time. And to measure we use certain instruments or a scale of values. The work is constructed from a neutral place where it questions the existence of at least three places (at least imagined and created from this notion of DESMEDIR): the measured, the unmeasured and the neutral. What is nothingness? What would life be like without us? There is a convention that such a place is associated with the natural; with that which had no (apparent) intervention or modification, with purity, fragility and naivety; with all that we know and know of its existence given the ability to reason and assimilate the word table to define the object that allows us to rest things on it. 

In his plastic essay, the artist seeks to reach a place untainted by the trajectories he has travelled; the learning he has incorporated; the emotions, the everyday, the routine. To imagine nothingness. This exercise was traversed (and the work traversed this scenario) by the restrictions, limitations and absence of uses of public spaces in a context of global health crisis.