Micropolitics for Inhabiting Through Gesture

The exhibition brings together eleven artists through Micropolitics for Inhabiting Through Gesture, a process-based work by Paula Carmona Araya that proposes the gesture as a political and poetic potential capable of activating other forms of territorial relation. In the face of the ways we inhabit, move through and naturalise everyday spaces, imagining alternative modes of being in common becomes an urgent necessity that art can render perceptible.

Streets, like bodies, speak of property, statutes, regulations, desires and affects. In the encounter between them, gestural and visual superposition reveals the tensions that shape our experience of space: how we move through it, who is able to inhabit it and under what conditions. From this reflection, Carmona Araya’s work unfolds a series of photographs of bodies lying horizontally across the city, marked by their contact with the pavement, sweat, noise, posts, corners and the accelerated rhythm of those who pass by.

The artists enter into dialogue with this premise, extending and displacing it through their own imaginaries and languages. Their works form a constellation of affected materialities, displaced everyday elements, bodies, memories and gestures that open critical and sensitive possibilities. Taken together, the exhibition invites us to attend to that which, from an apparently minimal scale, can alter the ways we look, move through and inhabit the common.

The works of Baim Canizales, Irene Realle, Diego Mediano, Icíar Yllera, Josefina Bardi Prida, Valentina Bobbo, David Gutiérrez Almonacid, Josefina Cruzat Figueroa, Sole Contreras Pavez and Jesús Ormeño shape and expand the micropolitical possibilities of inhabiting through gesture.