Activities, exhibitions and projects

From February 15th to May 24th, 2024

The artist Ángeles Sioli presents her new work 'Acrobatics' at the exhibition hall of the MVA Cultural Center, consisting of 34 pieces, 25 of which are part of a six-meter installation. Sioli combines various materials in a very personal way in this exhibition - glass, fabrics, high-weight paper with inks, pastels, watercolors, and graphite - to create four spaces for reflection on the relationship between time and women's lives.

Care, fragility. Vulnerability and precariousness. Motherhood, working days. The glass ceiling, the sticky floor. This scheme of asymmetries conditions women's lives, their well-being, and freedom. Sioli has translated these concepts into the creatures that make up her exhibition and into the temporal loop narrative she works on as a mirror of the endless days to which women are subjected due to the unresolved presence of the double shift. 24 creatures, flexible and fragile, seeking to fly freely. A temporal loop narrative based on the chronology of the four seasons, the succession of weeks, months, years. Seasons that die to come back to life.

Art has a political dimension, a construction of the common, that should not be underestimated. It is not a commitment to society, this would reduce the dimension I mention to a gesture, pact, or propaganda, but rather it is about shoring up a series of cultural nutrients that we must strengthen, precisely, with the thought offered by each creator through their work.

Ángeles Sioli's exhibition, 'Acrobatics,' stands out for that political dimension of thinking about the common, a thought that she translates audaciously both in the materials she uses for the elaboration of her work, and in the conceptual framework on which she has set her acrobatics to fly. Sioli gives a new language to paper, builds mountain ranges of colors, textures of ideas that she outlines with a craftsman's hand and unfolds among pastels, graphite, and glass. If something makes this creator unique, it is how she translates meaning into its most physical representation. The idea can be and exist in every possible material.

The conceptual cartography that runs through this exhibition draws from the concept of ritual and powerfully links it to the concept of gender. Life, its stages, are defined by gender. Like time and its scheme. This combination of ideas leads her to a deep reflection on the fragility and vulnerability of women in a world narrated from the canon of hyperproduction and related to the concept of time from a masculine perspective.

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