MYSTERY OF LOVE: Leonor Serrano Rivas Fellow artist solo project
24/04/2019 at 19:30
19/05/2019
Mahal Art Space
Tangier
Leonor Serrano Rivas
E.M.M.A. is pleased to present Twofold Sea (not a mirror in the eye but a mirror in the mind) by Leonor Serrano Rivas, the third solo project realised in the context of Mystery of Love roaming program of artistic research formed of a touring group of study in Palermo, individual researches and public presentations of new productions in Madrid and Tangier. Searching collectively for the erotic sphere of life, previously fellow artists have looked in their work at irrational forces that arise from desire and forms of expression and healing of animal and nudist communities. While in Tangier, Leonor Serrano Rivas centering on the role that Mediterranean waters have played for her by creating through material layers a sort of aural limbo where the entanglement of history, the personal, and intangible asset can generate a parallel state of living/reality.
In Serrano Rivas’ new installation, the sea is featured as a connector of three places on the shores of Mediterranean seas: Palermo, Malaga and Tangier. We will be looking into three mosaics and its mermaids’ figures as symbolic and mythological imaginaries that appear in these three sites enabling a passage between earth and sky. This project does not re-present the mosaics but imagine a space of encounter of their common shapes. Being the sea is a shared space; historical mosaics are turned into its most evocative and semantic figures. Thus, they become pure forms that belong to nature. The mosaics get twofold. The installation goes from a flat surface expansion – that of the horizon created by the screen print frames – to a deep atmospheric space were coloured shadows invade the room. Reflections of shapes and colours resonate whilst invading into the spatial depth of the sea.
*Leonor Serrano Rivas’s project is organised and produced by E.M.M.A. with the collaboration of Mahal Art Space (Tangier).
SAGA, film by Rafaela Lopez, Baptiste Masson and David Perreard
Sophie Mallett
