Teresa Magrane
…por las ramas
March 13 to April 30, 2024
Curator: Daniela Arroyo
Curatorial text
An attentive gaze floats in space and is lost in the light that covers everything. A pair of scurry feet in the grass make paths through the crunching sound of remains of leaves, little flowers and branches. Two hands tirelessly imagine how to rescue something new from what is about to be lost.
The most interesting thing about endlessly repeating an action is that by always doing the same thing, new things can always emerge. In this sense, repetition could be thought of as a form of research in itself, as it is the opportunity to explore all the possibilities with which that action can surprise us each time.
Teresa Magrane knew how to find her own method of artistic work, which she reproduces in a sustained way over time and which, each time, gives her a new result. Her inexhaustible process is based on a constant dialogue between her hands, materiality, the environment outside and the machine inside the workshop. She proposes, and everything responds.
Her hybrid work between different graphic art techniques often plays with being a painting, a drawing, an engraving… all of them at the same time. It can be disorienting, just like the atmospheres that her images propose. They could well be a cut out of the ground or a new horizon, depending on who looks at it; because easily recognizable elements become unknown in the plastic game that the artist directs.
That plausible work that Teresa produces among leaves and little flowers, color palettes, lights and shadows, diverse planes and scales, emerge in the gallery space like different thresholds. Arranged there subtly, to look around these new spaces and get lost among the branches.
Daniela Arroyo
Marzo, 2024
