EL FRÍO ANTES DE CAER 


EL FRÍO ANTES DE CAER

A PIECE OF  MIXTAPE SUAVECITO, PROJECT BY dj_sônia (Ángela Millano & Blanca G.Terán)
2022

Quilts and galvanised steel chain
Piece created for the exhibition LAS MALAS curated by Nuria Gómez Gabriel at La Casa Encendida (Madrid) from May to September 2022.
Support:
La Casa Encebida, ENCURA V (Hangar, Hablar en Arte, La Casa Encendida)
Confection:
Manuela Gálvez, Olga Blanco, Ángela Millano and Blanca Gómez. 

A project that explores the states of reflection and other spaces that can open up in the liturgy of sleep. Sleeping together or sleeping with others as a meeting place in the shade, in the softness, in the unknown. Our interest in one of the most widespread pathologies and symptomologies of globalised life, insomnia, is approached from a theoretical-practical investigation that focuses on the sleeping or insomniac body, as well as the different methods available to accompany this body through the night.

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On this occasion, the idea materialises in a door that takes on the metaphor of the threshold that separates two realities, the waking body and the sleeping body, control and the lack of it. When Núria, the curator, invited us to be part of the exhibition and to situate ourselves at the point of entry, we decided to make a door, a door with objects that are part of our practice. One of our practices is to sleep with people, in what we call the Sleepers' Club, a space to share sleep, or the lack of it, in a collective way. El frío antes de caer, is a door made with the blankets used in these meetings, it is an image of objects made to be in the horizontal, raised to the vertical, it is a perverse image of something soft, almost touching the wall, it is a soft materiality of large scale that sometimes disturbs and sometimes softens the head, it is a pictorial work using what the eye sees, some used blankets hung up.