Elena Damiani, La Historia Se Descompone En Imagenes, No En Historias, 2012. Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galeria
Elena Damiani
La historia se descompone en imagenes, no en historias
(History is decomposed into images, not into narratives)
30 November 2012 – 20 January 2013
at Revolver Galeria, Lima
Elena Damiani’s “La Historia Se Descompone En Imágenes, No En Historias (History Decomposes Into Images, Not Into Narratives)†is a collection of collages, sculptures and video, which evoke the experiences of the ‘wanderer’. Reworking images found in photographic archives, the exhibit is composed by a series of objects arranged in isolated landscapes. They invoke a certain solitude and longing, and yet they are also tranquil and deeply satisfying. The artist invites her spectators to roam through a deserted territory where landmarks of a not so distant past are sprawled across the landscape serving as a reminder of the time that has come to pass.
The images are meant to be visual embodiments of recollections, like images in a dream that are familiar yet we cannot define. There is no particular order in the exhibit, the images are selected without the necessity of having to do with the other, the idea is that they imitate the memory of the wanderer: fragmented images of places that are now buried in our minds without names or dates, but continue because of the impression they left behind.
The depiction of ruins is a reoccurring theme in Damiani´s work, serving as examples to the finitude of all man made creations, and the mortality of humans themselves. She attempts to paint a poetic image of the ruptured and desolated past existing in the present as ruins, the inevitable fate of all that is and all that will be.
Revolver Galeria
Calle General Recavarren 261,
Miraflores, Lima
Peru
revolvergaleria.com
Opening hours
Monday – Saturday: 14h00 – 21h00
Elena Damiani’s website: elenadamiani.com
Elena Damiani, La Historia Se Descompone En Imagenes, No En Historias, 2012. Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galeria
Elena Damiani, The Twins (Diptych), 2012. Print on found bookplates. Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galeria
Elena Damiani, Macelo 2, 2012. Marble, glass, collage on found bookplates. Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galeria
Elena Damiani, Notas de un viajero memorioso (Los slab), 2012. Marble, mineral paper, found book, collage on found book, collage on found bookplate, marble moldings. Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galeria
Elena Damiani, Fading Field 2, 2012. Print on silk chiffon. Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galeria
Elena Damiani, La Historia Se Descompone En Imagenes, No En Historias, 2012. Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galeria