Nicolas Paris at the Elba Benítez Gallery

This project has been especially conceived for the Elba Benítez space in Madrid, where the artist Nicolás Paris, accompanied by the curatorship of MªBelén Sáez de Ibarra, will be working to produce the pieces that willgive risetoa laboratory-observation classroom where the imperceptible is the secret formula of the living that is undergoing constant transformation.

 

Nicolás Paris thus refers to the project dialogue, murmur,light, hours or (a place to observe the transformationprocess): “Everyday perception is variable. It depends on light, sound, encounter, time,rustandair. From nothing,fromthe hyper minimum, eventsare generated. The immateriality of these phenomena is unpredictable and tendstoward the fluid and unstable. Beyond the physical, our relation to the environment is deeper, we generate intrinsicrelations with invisible things that lend a particular formto our experience, experiences that build environments of dialogue and exchange.”

 

Throughout his substantial career Nicolás Paris (Colombia, 1977) has been recipient of scholarships and residencies in Latin America, Europe and the United States. His work has been acquired for international collections such asthose of the MUSAC of Leon, Spain; the Tate Modern of London and the MoMA of New York. Hisparticipation in the Biennials of Mercosur, Venice, Lyon and Sao Paulo and the Triennial of the New Museum have revolved around drawing as a pedagogical tool, from which he proposes a new concept of mobile school whose design is in progress and that draws on the making of hand-made products and on dialogue with people, animals, plants,students, teachers, curators and other artists.

 

MªBelén Sáez de Ibarra (curator) directs the Art Museum of the National University of Colombia where since 2008 she has been developing a policy of commissioning and producing major exhibitions that span trans-disciplinary processes and the diverse media of international contemporary art.