Scorching the Earth, Rosell Messeguer y Fabiano Kueva

Abstract

Rosell Messiguer:

Messeguer seeks to investigate a mining archaeology, in the millenary footprint of the mineral layers that tell us the underground history, what happened on earth, in the ashes. The works of the artist selected in this curatorship narrate what has transpired in underground nature – they relate mining extraction from a critical angle and, on a poetic level, propose an archeology of abandoned spaces; the desert postcard caused by the man that goes through excavations of longed for wealth, where the myth in search of treasures, generates a devastating mythology.

Fabian Kueva:

Fire has always been life, with its powerful and ephemeral energy; creates and destroys, makes and unmakes, shelters and disappears; the fire in this work by Fabiano Kueva, is the instrument of a performative act, where the results are of a deep impression, which leaves vestiges in the memory; it is also a poetic and political gesture, because when burning a text there is no void, but a trace, the artist deconstructs the superficial layer of the text and its primary linguistics, drops it and makes a mark that denotes another semiotic of what does not change and It leads us to another text that demands a vanishing point, the images of the video are static variables of time in the chaotic and wandering city.