Cause it might fade away: Four proposals about retrieval and closure

The exhibition Cause It Might Fade Away: Four Proposals about Retrieval and Closure, feature the work of artists Nora Maite Nieves, Kristine Serviá, Marisol Plard Narváez, Migdalia Barens Vera and curator Brenda Torres Figueroa in an inevitable conversation about how personal memories, the passage of time and the idea of “home” are collected, addressed and can be reestablished as a universal human condition.

It is not a coincidence that the artists convoked for this exhibition were all born and raised in Puerto Rico and have made the urban landscape of the cities of Chicago and New York their transitional residence. Inevitably, during that process they’ve retrieved and reconstructed reminiscences of a somewhat familiar, yet other times unrecognizable, place called home.

Each visual statement proposed is embedded with subtle symbolism, very distinctive to each artist. Through mapping and haunting timelines without beginning or end; through an assemblage of reconstructed grounds that allow us to recognize all the steps we’ve made; through a contained shadow outlining an unfamiliar sight; and through the last remembrance that assumes the shape of an abandoned garment that longs, transits and remains untouched.

The exhibition is part of the commemoration of International Women’s Day at IPRAC, and will be open to the public until the end of March 2011.