900 TERRITORIES - LINE

2022

LINE is the second stage of 900 TERRITORIES: a long-term project on the relationship with space from writing and spatial occupation. The fabled “writings” start from variations of systems that occupy the space subdivided by a grid, which parts from the human need to measure and subdivide space in order to understand it and relate to it. Composed of ink drawings, steel sculptures and cotton thread embroidery on linen, the material exploration of this stage is based on the mathematical conception in which the line lacks mass, so that the spatial occupation is actually a representation. Thus, the sculptures function as devices that are activated by the sun to “write” with shadows, while the thread embroideries pass through the weave of the linen without occupying or modifying it. The series also makes reference to the work of Sol Lewitt, Mirtha Dermisache and Matías Goeritz to question the different associations of the use of the line from the calligraphic, the typographic, the geometric and the representative.