"Are horizons, and horizons are at an infinite distance", 2014. 2000 blue paper boats. Quote extracted from J. F. Lyotard's essay "The Inhuman".

"Are horizons, and horizons are at an infinite distance", 2014. 2000 blue paper boats. Quote extracted from J. F. Lyotard's essay "The Inhuman".

Installation view "Parajes de silencio. Aphonic calligraphies" at Freijo Gallery in 2015. Work on view: "Horizons are at an infinite distance"

Installation view "Parajes de silencio. Aphonic calligraphies" at Freijo Gallery in 2015. Work on view: "Horizons are at an infinite distance"

"Bitácora", 2015. Sheets of old books of different subjects intervened with colored wax and candle wick on a bed of sea salt. 23 x 240 x 4 cm.

"Bitácora", 2015. Sheets of old books of different subjects intervened with colored wax and candle wick on a bed of sea salt. 23 x 240 x 4 cm.

Detail "Bitácora", 2015. Leaves from old books on different subjects, with coloured wax and candle wick over sea salt. 23 x 240 x 4 cm.

Detail "Bitácora", 2015. Leaves from old books on different subjects, with coloured wax and candle wick over sea salt. 23 x 240 x 4 cm.

"Paraje de silencio: the sail of the ship", 2015. Book sheets edited between 1940 and 1960, twisted yarn and colored wax. 110 x 197 x 3 cm. aprox.

"Paraje de silencio: the sail of the ship", 2015. Book sheets edited between 1940 and 1960, twisted yarn and colored wax. 110 x 197 x 3 cm. aprox.

Installation view "Parajes de silencio. Aphonic calligraphies" at Freijo Gallery in 2015. Works on view: "Paraje de silencio: la vela del barco" y "Las alas del Poeta IV".

Installation view "Parajes de silencio. Aphonic calligraphies" at Freijo Gallery in 2015. Works on view: "Paraje de silencio: la vela del barco" y "Las alas del Poeta IV".

"The Poet’s wings X", 2016. Matches, feathers, wood, sandpaper and glass lantern. Writing pen protected by a glass beacon, on wooden base lined with sandpaper.

"The Poet’s wings X", 2016. Matches, feathers, wood, sandpaper and glass lantern. Writing pen protected by a glass beacon, on wooden base lined with sandpaper.

"Break the silence", 2012. Glass and woven silver thread. 81 bells. Variable installation dimensions. Handcrafted glass jingle bells, each with its own sound.

"Break the silence", 2012. Glass and woven silver thread. 81 bells. Variable installation dimensions. Handcrafted glass jingle bells, each with its own sound.

"True histories: common ground", 2014. Paper, adhesives, methacrylate. 21 x 21 x 20 cm.Piece made from history books dated between 1940 and 1960.

"True histories: common ground", 2014. Paper, adhesives, methacrylate. 21 x 21 x 20 cm.Piece made from history books dated between 1940 and 1960.

"Act without words II", 2014. Seeds, paper, wood and glass. 30 x 86 x 10 cm. The text that forms the visual basis of this work is the play Act without words by S. Beckett.

"Act without words II", 2014. Seeds, paper, wood and glass. 30 x 86 x 10 cm. The text that forms the visual basis of this work is the play Act without words by S. Beckett.

"Alzacuellos para aprender a contar historias I", 2015. Organza, golden thread, seeds and pistils on satin-lined base, in lacquered wood display case.

"Alzacuellos para aprender a contar historias I", 2015. Organza, golden thread, seeds and pistils on satin-lined base, in lacquered wood display case.

"Alzacuellos para aprender a contar historias II", 2015. Pearls, paper, set letter, silver thread, organza and sequins on a satin-lined base, in lacquered wooden display case.

"Alzacuellos para aprender a contar historias II", 2015. Pearls, paper, set letter, silver thread, organza and sequins on a satin-lined base, in lacquered wooden display case.

"Alzacuellos para aprender a dejar de contar de historias", 2015. Book spines, silver thread and green thread on satin-lined base, in lacquered wood display case.

"Alzacuellos para aprender a dejar de contar de historias", 2015. Book spines, silver thread and green thread on satin-lined base, in lacquered wood display case.

Silent places. Voiceless Calligraphies

Rocío Garriga

from January 24, 2015 to March 6, 2015

Darkness from which I descend,
I love you more than the flame
that sets limits to the world.

Rilke. The Book of Hours.

There are spaces whose limits are relative, diffuse and even only apparent; these spaces are mostly created by silence. In them inhabit the words with which we translate them, the images that we associate with them or that they present to us, the affections that we project on them.

The exhibition Silent places. Voiceless Calligraphies of the artist Rocío Garriga constitutes the attempt and the search to create and find these spaces. The title of the exhibition synthesizes, not as a closing but as a principle, a series of places that have been created to inhabit the opening of the limit. That is why it is centered on silent places, because they are spaces that tend to be isolated and to be placed far away, because place is also the state in which a thing is; that is why the word calligraphies was chosen, because by making these spaces visible we have written them in our own way.

Rhetoric in all its figures generates poetic spaces that are not defined: it is not only text, it is also image and it is in objects, in the association of their meaning and use. The rhetoric thus understood is a source of openness, it is any possible discourse, it is beyond words: it is action and result, it is found in the translation that we make of the space of silence that it itself creates, in the images that it presents to us.

There is no light in it, it is search: a search that takes place in darkness and erases the limits of the world.

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