Suspended State examines how matter, cultural knowledge, and embodied practices shift across spaces where frameworks of memory and familial heritage are continually translated. Bringing together three Latin American artists living on opposite sides of the Atlantic, the exhibition explores how suspension can open new modes of perception and relationality amid ecological precarity. The works inhabit transitional states where processes of origination and decomposition coincide.
Drawing on Laura Tripaldi’s Parallel Minds, water emerges as both a structural and conceptual principle. The exhibition treats materials as active participants that move with the rhythms of vaivén, the ebb and flow of tides, oscillating between surrender and direction. Beeswax takes shape as a mutable medium, melting and solidifying to embody cycles of transformation and reuse. Nearby, photographic-emulsion-cast vessels register light, humidity, and time, visibly evolving within the gallery. Salvaged Fresnel lenses, originally designed to direct light across distance, reorient the viewer’s gaze and offer a metaphor for orientation and attention. Projections and optical devices extend these investigations, bending perception and revealing the gallery as a layered, living environment.
The engagement with material instability parallels the artists’ own lived experience. Living far from their homelands, they sustain their collaboration through digital correspondence while navigating shifting senses of belonging that weave into the work. In response to distance, they turn to cultural archives passed down through their maternal lineages as living sources of knowledge, continually evolving in meaning over time. Memory shapes these processes, introducing subtle distortions and glitches in the transmission of culture, leading the artists to reinterpret inherited rituals through the gestures and materials available in their current geographies. Past and present coexist, allowing traditions to take new form in contemporary contexts, producing material distortions and echoes of memory that are continuously rewritten.
Suspended State invites viewers into a living terrain where boundaries between source and destination are destabilized. The constellation of works considers how embodied knowledge circulates through changing conditions, emphasizing the interdependence of perception, memory, and materiality. At the heart of the artists’ shared practice lies transformation through collaboration, an approach that reimagines art-making as both a site of vulnerability and a method of resilience. The exhibition encourages viewers to inhabit this oscillating environment attentively, participating in a continual negotiation between presence and impermanence, where observation itself becomes a form of engagement, and each encounter reshapes both the work and the beholder, leaving a lasting imprint on the gallery’s temporal and spatial fabric.