AUSTRIA IS LANDLOCKED (DAILY ADOPTION)
Kenia Cano
The work of Kenia Cano (Mexico City, 1972) has been characterized for being located at the intersection between visual language and the image made of words. In her poetry always glimpses the eye that interprets the visible world, reality and its sound echoes. In her plastic work, in a sense, an inverse process takes place, in which the elements and techniques take on the dimension of the symbolic. In Austria no tiene salida al mar (Diaria adopción), Cano uses collage as a technique of resignification: the papers, the archive, the various objects are assembled to build a poetics of adoption. In this way, the experiential gesture and the artistic process form the same framework that honors its etymology: to choose, to welcome, to join what is ours, to make a collage of living matter.
This exhibition consists of three parts: 16 pieces that accompany a homonymous poem book, which tells the story of an adoption process, a sound piece by Deborah Silberer and Marcos Miranda, which includes the reading of some fragments of poems and an archive that seeks to make explicit the process of artistic and editorial production process of the work.
The consolidation of this project born in 2017 is, among many other things, the continuation of an artistic residency carried out by the author in 2023 at La Tallera, as part of the editorial stay of Ediciones Simiente within the program La Rotativa, where it acquired the form in which it is presented to us: a book that overflows its pages and becomes an exhibition or an exhibition that is contained in a book.
Sergio Lara
The presentation of Austria no tiene salida al mar (Diaria adopción) opens a cycle of activities in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Escuela de Crítica de Arte, an initiative that La Tallera has been carrying out since 2014.
