OUTSTRETCHED. Esther Merinero

There is something moving in the gesture of stretching out one’s arms to save the distance between two points. This movement, nearly always useless, reveals the impossibility of being in two places at the same time, of narrowing the space that separates them. Outstretched is to raise the chest, shrug the shoulders and close the eyes tightly; to spread the wings to feel the aerial lightness of the flight. To try, for a second, to be suspended from all reality. To open one’s eyes is to plummet, to recognise the fragmentary nature of all experience and to admit the inability to put together the pieces of what we call ‘our life’. Outstretched presents a series of works that, like pieces of a broken mirror, compose a hermetic, incomplete scene, in which what is felt and thought only in the course of a flight flourishes. Outstretched is that threshold, that instant in which one is almost able to reconcile the parts of a whole. Curated by Iñigo Villafranca Apesteguia.