Approaches to what?

This text takes its cue from Approches de quoi?, an essay by Georges Perec, published posthumously in The Infra-ordinary (1989). In it, Perec urges us to pay attention to the overlooked—to the ordinary, the habitual, the things so ever-present that they slip out of view. As he writes, “We live, of course; we breathe, of course.” Bruna, Clàudia, and Júlia seem to approach their practice in much the same way: as an open-ended process, grounded in experience, in living, in breathing. Taking up Perec’s invitation, this project turns its attention to “brick, cement, glass, our table manners, our utensils”—but above all, to “our tools, our schedules, and our rhythms.”

In keeping with his sensibility, the present curatorial text—meant to frame an exhibition still in the making—resists fixing meanings too firmly. Instead, it acknowledges its own limits, staying close only to what can be said with certainty for now: that we live, and that we breathe. So, what are we approaching? Perhaps an exhibition that claims a certain autonomy—one that loosens its ties to dominant narratives and institutional frameworks, to all that is so familiar it becomes invisible.

Artists: Júlia Franco Álvarez, Clàudia Clos, Bruna Velázquez Martí