CURRENT EXHIBITION
The bee also makes work possible
The land we walk on today is sustained by languages that go beyond words. What we eat today is possible because a pollinator like a butterfly did its work yesterday. In front of the honey, a bee will dance to let its companions know that it has found food. Every day, every moment, right now, as you pause in this room, the world continues to change. We are just another particle of the tapestry, carrying with us knowledge and gestures that we have not yet considered, perhaps because we have not paid the attention that the ceremony requires. A tool brings with it a word. Hands that weave carry with them a unique way of seeing the land. A work is an inheritance, it presupposes an imaginary that can be transformed into others that illuminate a future that today seems uncertain and trembling. The earth is a warp and the artists María Marchirant, Lara Ordoñez and Alba Abellán, through their works in this gallery, weave an extraordinary conversation with everything that surrounds and sustains us. Here we are not looking from the outside – nor from the top – creation happens because the eye and the body escape immediacy and imposed hierarchies. Each of them, with their work, is a path that goes through their own searches and processes, also bringing back memories and confirming the beauty of the spontaneous with their doing. In this meeting, light, colour and texture speak, but also plant fibres, threads, wool and yarn. The work is rooted in Valencian, the mother tongue of the three creators: through Llet, Llum and Mel, a new dialogue on customs, identity and heritage is revealed. Through traditional Valencian natural materials, a new framework opens up in which contemporary artistic practice gives importance to the creative process beyond the result. As the American poet Emily Dickinson said: “To make a meadow, you need a clover and a bee. And a dream. Dreaming would be enough if the bees were few”. If these pieces are in this exhibition today, it is not only because of the effort and work, but also because of the particular perspective of each of them that made them a reality. From the land to the work, the hands of the creators do not place nature as an alien entity, nor do they mark a distance from the territory and its customs in which they were born. In this beautiful confluence of three artists, it is still the garden, a ball of thread, the dawn, a beehive, a paintbrush. In its light and shadows, in the other things and beings, we can explore other approaches to the places and knowledge from which we come. This exhibition is an extraordinary way of opening up new possibilities and dialogues about the enormous cultural and artistic value that lies, among other things, behind techniques, work and knowledge that have always existed outside the academy and the centres. Another horizon begins here, thanks to three different but symbiotic and sibling paths and discourses. Between pieces and strokes that evoke tradition without being afraid to imagine it, a landscape, a bond, a seed, a knowledge, a technique, a life is truly protected and kept alive.
Maria Sanchez
Writer
