Magnet River

In spite of this apparent absence of a clear axis, the exhibition has some sotto voce cardinal points, a submerged beam of senses. The title is the first, as it refers to the theme par excellence: time, and even the works united here are nothing else than part of magnetic translation, the material and immaterial alluviums that the affluent drag towards a determined course, that, as Lezama Lima said, are “fragments to your magnet”. The always-elusive substance of time shows here dissimilar effects, as it should be, in concordance with its well-known relativity. Recurring to the mimesis of the clock is not necessary -here invoked with two explicit images, and metamorphosed into others-, because there are other resources and artefacts to try measuring or capturing the temporal passage. This work shows that based on an editorial work, in this case, from Royal Book Lodge. Established by Juli Susin, adjacent artistic strategies could still be invented, and the raw imaginary material of books can be used - either as the book of an artist, as an object or in any conceptual order- as a driving lever for the search of a new range of senses that exceed the initial geographic territory, aimed at diverse aspects, sometimes associating books with videos, performances, paintings, drawings, objects or installations. This is not usually very common, especially in the biennial field, which are more lineal than what they seem regarding their exhibition proposals.
Fragment to your magnet. Adolfo Montejo Navas, texte pour expostion Magnet River au Musée Nimayer, en 2012