ÉXODO SIN TÍTULO
Exhibition by Asociación De Origen at Casabanchel, Madrid, 2019.
(Luis Cabanas, Leandro Navarro, Debora Levy, Julia Ábalos, Rebeca Allen, Ángela Tisner, Frida Abella, Olivia Ferreira)
Álvaro Gómez-Pidal: 143, 209, 268 – 08:20 mins – 16 mm.
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On the eleventh of September, a convoy of musicians, artists and shepherds left the vicinity of Cuenca by foot, heading 300 km to the Carabanchel district of Madrid. The journey lasted ten days. Accompanied by two donkeys pulling wagons loaded with clay and rosemary, the convoy produced a number of votive sculptures during the crossing.
This piece evokes forgone paradises and human beings’ aptitude towards adaptation; the kind that is sustained by the collective imagination. The work is a social sculpture that functions within an expanding net of affections. It reflects on the transformation of rural and urban territory and the agency gravitating between land, periphery and city.
Mateo Revillo 