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The sea, for the ancient world, was a space of passages, encounters, and interactions. Its origin could be sought in the various foundational narratives that attempted to explain the existence of that virtually infinite mass of salt water. Yet beyond such accounts, it stood as a mythical territory in which certain sacred figures and other legendary beings held at their mercy the destinies of those who dared to traverse it. It is this ancestral impulse, one might say, that underpins the exhibition by Cristina Córdova.

Positioned midway between the rituals of Mediterranean and Caribbean cultures, the artist immerses us in an aquatic realm where a gallery of characters bears in its forms the echoes of that past, while at the same time acknowledging the realities and testimonies of a not-so-distant present. It is within this very dichotomy that the sea assumes its role as creator and repository of a shared memory: it is no coincidence, indeed, that from its foam an anachronistic Venus (re)emerges, nor that other figures—heads, bodily fragments—seem to recall those beings, divine or otherwise, born of a collective subconscious as remote as it is contemporary.

How, then, are we to embark upon this sea brimming with murmurs and echoes? In what manner might we find a place within that vessel filled with voices and longings? And is it not paradoxical that these creations should materialize through the action of earth and fire? Perhaps it is this tide that allows us, through the ebb and flow of the waves, to reveal the traces left by other hands on the (marine) floor of our history.

Text by : Daniel Expósito