By Carlos Pavel Smith | Project Leader
“Next to the memory of a burning building, the statue of ‘General Tomás Herrera’ appears on a tall granite pedestal. A man made of stone only observing how a community, and its memories, are turned into smoke and ashes. The House loses it own sense of habitability and now, it is only a residue.
The transience of each moment and the absence of a rhythm that gives a meaning to life and death, places us before a new temporal scenario, since it has left behind the notion of time as narration.
Time escapes because nothing ends, and everything, including oneself, is experienced as ephemeral and fleeting.”
Our Summer Project begins with a conversation with ENLACES students about an incident that occurred in the past year where a historic house in the neighborhood was reduced to ashes in a fire (Casa Boyacá, 2018). The purpose, to deepen and explore our current relationship with time and memory.
Artists seek to question the ephemeral and the disposable, in which things - people - properties - feelings, acquire less and less importance, until they completely lose their value.
The result of this creative process was presented twice before the neighbors and friends of the Enlaces Program.
You can see the complete performance in our Youtube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ElWSNmS0Rs&t=645s
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