Aurora Rodriguez Teruel

Residency period: September-October 2018

Aurora usually works on the urban space to understand how the visible and the  invisible structures affect everyday life and the social fabric.

Currently her research has focused on the idea of home and intimacy spaces. During her residency, Aurora has walked through the greed of streets in the hold town of Blanca, where she finds the ruins of a neighborhood that was once full of life. Ruins full of skeletons, from animals and houses, bones that held a body and bricks that supported the structure where once there was a home.

Aurora’s proposal has taken shape in an action in which she carries bricks from those ruins, she builds a suit, a second skin whose elements brings back to life with her walk.

There is an exercise of visual and emotional mimesis, where the burden sensation is not only coming from its weight and materiality, but from its history and  the stories in which these materials were witness and part.

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In her second month, Aurora has brought found objects into the space to work with their materiality.

Through engraving, transfer and installation, Aurora experiments with these objects to emphasise some of their qualities. The body is introduced here as one more element, mimicking the pieces again to speak about balance and fragility. They show flexibility as the fundamental quality of the metallic network’s resistance, and how the balance between the elements is sustained by their interdependence.

It is a work that functions on both levels: formally, for its plastic qualities and conceptually for the metaphors it evokes.