Solo Show curated by: Ana Isabel Galván García de las Bayonas
Flatiron Project Space ; BFA Critical and Visual Studies
W133 21st ST, New York
“There’s a leaf in my hand” is a meditative experience where I continue with an exploration of the urgent reconfiguration of human and non-human relationships. Whether deconstructing colonial structures of nature representation or engaging in multiple mixed-media co-creations, the installation exposes the collaborative and disruptive potential that emerges from the recombination of plant and human agencies. At the heart of the work lies an intrinsic questioning and entanglement of the art/science divide, calling for creative thinking as a critical and constitutive element of both disciplines and languages.
This exhibition invite us into an event of interspecies affectivity. Drawing from my own history of mutual care with plants, both in my native Galicia and through my migratory experience in the US, I urge us to pause and reflect on the impact that action, observation, and contact have on the relationships between interdependent organisms.
Within the exhibition, the installation “Lay Here With Me” offers a third space for sensory interaction between humans and plants, through a haptic experience that intertwines bodies and machines, senses and materials, the time of memory and the time of the artwork. Like pieces of a mechanism, like particles of a body, like inhabitants of a forest, Iglesias inaugurates a threshold where the viewer, the artist, and the medium exist in deep symbiosis, intuiting the indescribable form of a world (perhaps) to come.
