Untitled (2023)
Screen printing on paper
2 elements. 120 x 60 cm each
BA Collection
Inventory No.: 2023.572.2
Gour [Rimstone] began to take shape when two events overlapped. The estrangement caused by interaction of light with a virtual landscape and a later moment when she was filming in Sintra. This second moment was a type of ‘analogical’ translation where she could land something of what my desire sought. This series of events would mark the start of a territory to be explored.
During the first half of 2023, she was on a BilbaoArte studio loan grant, which meant she was able to return to Bilbao and explore its landscapes. Over those months, curiosity and what has already been discussed made her want to explore caves and start caving. There was something about it that beguiled her. The body’s interaction with the territory, both in terms of scale and reminiscent of architecture, given that those spaces are roofed in. Jara is interested in the unknown of those places, the relationship it has with the spatial orientation and that that is measured using artificial light. The field of vision is limited and conditions the perception and, therefore, the images that emerge. The -> Space – Body – Light => system thus emerged. The interaction of those elements gradually generates a cartography or mirror image of the territory entered. The artist reads and captures the dynamism of those underground landscapes and their relationship with water. Given their construction-dismantling times, their geological scale is closer to the human one. The flow of water opens up grottoes and shifts material; the calcium carbonate dissolves and forms sediment in another place with a different shape creating cave formations. This dynamic way in which the landscape is built – and based on dilution-precipitation logics – interests her as it opens up a mindset affecting her work. The name Gour [rimstones] refers to a cave formation in the shape of a cauldron where water accumulates. This formation gives its name to the project and establishes a way of working: creating a time deposit where materials are accumulated and used in a different form. The screen print images belong to this visual exploration of the underground landscape.
Jara Roset (Madrid, 1998) graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (2022), and currently lives and works in Bilbao. Her art is embedded in her everyday life, as being sensitive towards a world is her way of accessing the real to know, do and be. The eco-anxiety that she feels makes her want to understand the reason between the distances between the androgenic actions, their consequences for the territory and the impact of those changes on the life experience of other people. Becoming environmentally aware is her way to reach out and be rooted in her world. Jara believes that aesthetics is able to trigger a displacement in people. Sensitivity about a world is to reach out to it, is to reveal layers of what is real and is to generate empathy. When she explores these concerns, she does so accompanied by and entering into dialogue with others, because she does not want to or understand the rationale for doing it alone. Therefore, she approaches her body to the objects, places and images.