I/O

Miguel Miguel García

This exhibition brings together the recent creative work of Jesús Moreno-Granados, a young Venezuelan artist (Caracas, 1981) who lives and works in Bogotá. Comprising a set of assemblages, sculptures, and a sound installation, these proposals have been approached through the contrasts between the material and the immaterial. For this reason, the texts, sounds, voids, structures, and images are all inscribed with ideas of translation, edge, and territory.

I/O, more than an acronym, must be understood in these pieces through the meaning of “On / Off.” This reference to everyday electronic interfaces establishes a reading that proposes tension between poles: first, with regard to the relationship between the subject and being in the face of the artificial; then, concerning the sculptor’s craft itself, (im)materiality and its implications.

Moreno-Granados understands matter, time, and space as variables upon which a shared understanding of the universe is built. For him, these issues are phenomenological approaches that shape and attempt to understand and explain the human experience—his life and environment. In these works, the artist proposes spatial situations that reveal the relationships woven between subject, environment, and context, seeking to open possibilities for other ways of seeing and listening, optics and auditions that may distort, doubt, and question that shared understanding usually taken as existence.

As an immersive installation, the grouping of these three-dimensional pieces suggests a utopian universe, a nonexistent galaxy that spatially and aesthetically leads the spectator to orbit an atmosphere that transports them beyond their everyday habitat—displacing, carrying, and guiding them beyond their own time, to a place previously unknown.

By Miguel Miguel García, Art Curator.

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