“Todo cae en silencio”

Hugo Lugo
Noviembre | Febrero

These works are built on an appearance that questions itself. This is the principle of correspondence that I have dealt with throughout my work: the fragility of the relationship between surfaces and their contents, between matter and the forms it adopts. Fabrics that are paper, drawings that are painting, pieces that despite seeming to propose a meaning based on the situations represented through figuration, their narrative remains open.

Their primary intention is to question the immediacy with which we sometimes identify things.

The pieces that make up this series are based on the intention of enhancing the imaginary sound effect that every image carries latent. From the inattentive roar of a spark bursting in the sky to the barely perceptible flight of a bird cutting through the air, the visual representation always invents a noise in our mind.

Drawing from the studies and sketches of eighteenth-century naturalist painting, and even from the conventions of nineteenth-century botanical illustration, this new body of work accompanies a concern that has arisen since the conception of the title that gives this exhibition its name: The nonexistence of reality without our presence, or the uncertainty of our own existence without witnesses, is the doubt that that sowing asks about whether a tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear it-produces any sound. The undeniable answer is: Everything falls in silence. What that fall produced is ignored energy. The sound (and the world as such) is created by us making our presence known.

HL 2022

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