Carlos Irijalba: Uncut

Past event

The exhibition UNCUT by Carlos Irijalba brings together for the first time a large part of the Navarrese artist's work and research, developed over the last eight years, two of which he has been resident at the prestigious Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.

Ten pieces in different formats, from photography to the moving image or asphalt, make a non-linear reading of history and society, based on the analysis of the states of matter.

UNCUT brings together large doses of Irijalba's research work: Twilight, Unwilling Spectator, Inertia, High Tides or a selection of works from The Surface, The most recent series, together, acquire a certain dimension of a thesis, of a complete and uncut investigation.

Time and matter, two possible triggers of what we conceive as real, are the common thread of this thesis. The perception of time is one of the classic paradigms - for philosophy, art, physics, mathematics or any of their intersections - from which the construction of reality has been approached and questioned. Jacques Lacan used terms such as the real, the imaginary or the symbolic to delimit fields or dimensions, which he called «registers» of the psychic and which make its functioning possible. Thus, a thought process of the symbolic order always involves a basis in the real and a representation in the register of the imaginary. It is on this structure, which ultimately establishes the real as something ungraspable, that the works of this young artist operate.

The time-matter binomial that we have pointed out allows us to approach in a critical way, moreover, qualities present in genetic, linguistic or social processes. «Fluidity is not an exclusive quality of the liquid, and the liquid does not only flow», Carlos Irijalba reminds us. Accumulation, crystallisation, eruption, amalgamation or sedimentation operate in the same way. We are currently witnessing the reordering and creation of new power structures and social dynamics that can be analysed through these concepts. Changes of pressure and modifications of state that are registered - or manifest themselves - as critical points of intensity.

This exhibition has been curated by the Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation and has been possible thanks to the collaboration of the Moisés Pérez de Albéniz Gallery and the Juan Silió Gallery, and the technological support of El Corte Inglés.