EXHIBITIONS
Alba Triana: The Music of Things
Curated By Aluna Curatorial Collective
Alba Triana (b. Colombia), a composer by training, learned from the experience—unlooked-for but profoundly meaningful—of temporary physical immobility to listen to the “music,” inaudible and interior, of all things. “Not sound, which is an audible vibration,” she explains, “a human notion restricted to what we are capable of hearing; but rather the pulse of everything that exists, organic and inorganic, since everything, at a minute level, is vibration.” Upon crossing the threshold into another mode of knowledge and creation, her art (…)
Architectures of Imagination
Curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective
Architectures of Imagination brings together different types of poetic constructions in clouds, reminding us why Bachelard associated them in Air and Dreams with the mobilizing power of invention and its transformations. The exhibition includes photographs of ephemeral abstract sculptures built over the course of a single night using the furniture of hotels, and land-art installations with objects that teach ways of building a house with playing cards, or books set across rocks or seas. (…)
Books Are Burning: Rubén Torres Llorca
Curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective
Torres Llorca’s entire body of work turns each element into a device for dismantling the rules of the game: those that uphold historical power, that govern the complex ties between art and collecting, that uphold the system (whether draped in the guise of communism or capitalism) or that underlie the suspect assumptions, at once intimate and collective, from which the imaginaries of love are shaped.
The Family of the Artist
Curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective
“The first cry of a newborn baby in Chicago or Zamboanga, in Amsterdam or Rangoon, has the same pitch and the same intensity; each one says, ‘I am! I have arrived! I belong! I am a member of the Family!”
Revisiting that foundational sense of belonging, Aluna Curatorial Collective invited twenty-three artists to transform the first floor of the Tower Hotel with works inspired by their own families. Beyond the iconic history of familial bonds in artistic creation—from Dürer’s Praying Hands to Picasso’s Paul as Harlequin, or Anguissola’s The Chess Game and Carrie Mae Weems’s Family Pictures and Stories (…).
The Aleph and Other Portals
The exhibition is interwoven with The Aleph’s evocative meditation on the possibility of glimpsing the universe from the least expected places. Borges recounts the discovery of a small point where, with some discomfort from the strain of posture and concentrated gaze, it is possible to perceive“the place where all the places of the world are, without confusion, seen from every angle”, a tiny, iridescent sphere, which allows one to behold simultaneously the immeasurable space-time of all that exist, and to plunge into the contemplation of the boundless universe.
