TWOFOLD SEA (not a mirror in the eye but a mirror in the mind) by Leonor Serrano Rivas Fellow artist solo project
20/05/2019
20/05/2019
Mahal Art Space
Tangier
Leonor Serrano Rivas
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.
Photos by Abdellah Dkhissii