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In 2023, Sofía de Grenade was driving in northern Honduras, searching of material remnants of the agricultural modernization. After some fortuitous encounters and back road detours, she ended up in never-ending         symmetrical country roads within vast                     sugarcane fields. Unexpectedly, she entered the property of one of the largest  sugar factories in the Central American country; several armed guards have forbidden her to enter just the day before.     Gigantic machines were tearing up the land – the rubber from the tires leaving ephemeral traces in the hot farmland. The smell of burnt sugarcane was still in the air                                 – the last evidence of the zafra, the sugar cane harvest.

Rubber, fire and symmetry never let go of Sofía de Grenade. She came upon asphalt membrane, an industrial material to replace the difficult-to-get                          rubber. She transforms it then into new objects.  The initially precise geometric artifacts gradually                     warped into baroque, almost ghostly                    figures. The exhibition “El cruce de los tambores” shows dimensional arrangements that reveal a certain precariousness,             but at the same time a phenomenology of life – the life that the violence of modernity, the nation-state, and nature itself brings to an end.
                   Between formalism and emergence, Sofía de Grenade documents the inequalities and temporalities that structure the Latin American present.
 

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Public Program:

 

09.11. 6.00 pm Vernissage

21.11. 6.30 pm Finissage and publication launch. 

 

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