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Álvaro Icaza and Verónica Luyo present their 6th solo exhibition at Crisis. The exhibition includes a series of drawings in pressed charcoal, sculptures in tar and a complex installation of mechanical sculptures in metal that, working together, create an experimental symphony.

The exhibition sets in motion a chain of associations in which we move between different orders: the sculptural forms echo in the drawings which, in turn, refer to the kinetic sculptures, whose cyclical movements produce sounds that are sometimes familiar and other times unrecognizable. Furthermore, in their drifts, these sounds can be taken simultaneously as music (their repetition patterns correspond to the concept of music understood as a succession of sounds based on a rhythmic pattern), as noise or, also, as the strange voices of an unknown language (how are the punctuation marks in the title of the sample pronounced?).

Álvaro Icaza and Verónica Luyo propose “¿ ; { ^ )” as a space which precipitates us into the work of interpretation, but also reminds us that in every encounter with a work of art we are faced with a nucleus of uncertainty.

This is the meaning of the radically experiential bet that the artists propose in their exhibition at Crisis, where the idea of entering into a dialogue with the works requires first listening carefully as one who assumes that there is not always a message to be deciphered.

Max Hernández Calvo
Curator