Joaquín Jara, Sito Mújica: INSIEME, UNA FIGURA
A dialogue on the figure through painting and sculpture.
Joaquín Jara & Sito Mújica: Insieme, una figura, April 25th – June 14th
Opening: April 25th, 17:30 – 21:30
Insieme, una figura proposes the encounter of two personal imaginaries, two distinct voices that materialise, through painting and sculpture, a shared invitation to address their relationship with the figure.
This pas à deux becomes a pretext, or an invitation, to observe that every image or representation known by the subject never remains unaltered, but is inevitably transformed by imagination, language, memory and the body.
If every representation implies a relationship between past and present, between absence and presence, the exhibition establishes a dialogue between two ways of reactivating the impact of images and symbols that shape our meanings, from historical models and classical references to contemporary iconography, fashion and explorations of gender identity.
Each work transforms, deconstructs and reconstructs the figure, transferring its power into both personal and shared creation. An image is, in truth, the sum of all its personal reconstructions, and perhaps we can only approach what is real in it by placing its impact in common.
In some way, it regains its force and relevance when it re-emerges after having passed through us.
The multiple character of one same image takes shape in the two portraits of the actress Capucine, constructing a unified body of work through the re-elaboration and personal treatment of the same image as a point of departure.
The exhibition invites us to consider how, just as in the tradition of art history, the figure remains an open territory for interpretation, reflection and confrontation between perception, representation and meaning.
Text by David Villanueva.
Joaquín Jara develops a practice in which sculpture is understood as an expanded process in relation to the environment and its material dynamics. His work is situated at the intersection of sculpture, action and ecology, through interventions in natural and urban contexts, as well as experimental processes in the studio, often involving the participation of other living agents.
The works emerge from situations in which materials, body, time and environment interact together with other agents — human and non-human — within a single sculptural operation. Technical gesture, the physical properties of each material and the action of subjects such as insects, plants or fungi are integrated into the construction of the piece.
The resulting works function both as autonomous pieces and as material traces of these processes. They appear as condensations of actions carried out with materials such as ceramics, wood, bronze, plaster or rope, and refer to forms linked to the body, ritual and territory.
His practice understands sculpture as a device of mediation between matter, body and landscape. The result is a body of work in which technique, gesture and intention are articulated in order to activate relationships between the human and the non-human.
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Primarily pictorial, the work of Sito Mújica is organised under the term Copiadas, alluding to “non-authorship” and to an apparently limited formal originality. Its point of reference is appropriation, developed through graphic exercises that move from the digital image to the technical tradition of the visual arts.
In his most recent works, he emphasises his interest in methods of representation and in the classification and identification of images within major internet search engines and automated systems of visual recognition. From this context, he constructs paintings based on digital images, manually imitating the halftone pattern.
In these works, figurative elements are integrated with plastic icons that evoke abstraction, generating simultaneous representations or multi-layered planes. Although unique, the works arise from the appropriation of practices and representations of different origins.
The result is a hybridisation between Greco-Roman iconography, contemporary fashion and the graphic culture of pop, proposing a combination of codes that opens up multiple paths of perception.