Genealogy.
2003
Still images multiplying beats.
”He used to talk with his own heart ”.
— Code extracted from the Toltecs
”The big mistake is to think that you only look with your eyes ”.
— Georges Didi Huberman
Genealogy
Transfer on cotton paper + Collage
63 x 46 cm
2018
”Those of us who approach these engravings cannot help but adjust our eyes so that perforate the layers of paper and at the same time, rub each sheet, allowing the images which live there, look at us and show us those faces and those traces of a past that it is still here: whispering.”
“Irene Berzero researches: chooses, assembles and transfers.”
”The “original” photograph transmutes on paper. Transparent and opaque. Reveal. The family records organize the order of affections. They open and suture everyday moments that, today, they crop and update those absent permanence. The subtlety of vegetal matter supports the weight of a search to reconfigure what was and what is no longer.”
”Irene and her other way in art; the photographs -technology that makes us immortal-set differently. To prowl the bridges, the groves and the dust of emotional genealogy, and to capture them in this plastic, poetic and philosophical exercise. Ludic.”
Villa Podio
Transfer on silk paper
53 x 72 cm
2018
”A puzzle where distances are approached, overlapped, measured and cut into neutral colours, never neutral. Rudolf Arnheim writes:”
”Any line drawn on a sheet of paper, the simplest form modeled on a lump of clay, is like a stone thrown into a pond – disturbs the repose, mobilizes the space. Seeing is the perception of an action.”
Montes
Transfer on tracing paper
37 x 74 cm
2011
”Irene’s paintings place us in front of this threshold where what is disturbing is the calm and the transparency of a montage that accompanies a space that changes.”
Pyrophorus or tucu-tucu
Transfer on tracing paper
48 x 78 cm
2011
“There is no complacent look. Here you look with your whole body and through the proposed language, or the path does not advance. And the challenge is to restore the missing image. To reach the inverted Aleph that sustains this exhibition: the silence and the unfinished of a shared intimacy like an iceberg. The staging of love as fragmentation and dissolution of a world that is valued in the difference. The flow of art as a search for what is not there and what the artist questioned.”
The poetry
Transfer and Collage on paper (fragment)
14 x 21 cm
2018
”Irene Berzero traces a route crossed and disjointed by the mystery: the possibility of reunion.”
Alejandra Boero
Text for Genealogy exhibition, LAVA- OCTOBER 2018.
Text for Genealogy exhibition, LAVA- OCTOBER 2018.