Luis Adelantado Valencia is pleased to invite you to the opening of the solo exhibition of Pedro Torres, Lacunae, which will take place on 12 February at Boiler Room.
Pedro Torres (Brazil, 1982) returns to the gallery Luis Adelantado Valencia, after having been selected in the XVI CALL (2014), to present a new exhibition project in Boiler Room. Following one of his lines of research – which relates images to memory – and giving continuity to a previous project (The Keeper), the artist presents a series of works that address oblivion as a thematic axis.
Forgetting, understood within the processes related to memory, is the failure to recover a memory, information, which is deposited in the memory and cannot be recovered. But forgetting can also occur with the fading of a stimulus that is never required and as the result of interference caused by new and consolidated stimuli. From these different notions of forgetting and its derivations, the works seek to awaken reflections on memory, forgetting and the ways of relating to and in a world mediated by images.
The eleven works that make up the exhibition propose approaches to oblivion from different perspectives using media such as text, photography, installation and action, among others. White is the predominant colour in the exhibition, but it is enlivened with touches of blue, present in details in some of the works. The colour blue appears as a reference to the Lotophagi, inhabitants of an island in North Africa mentioned in Homer’s Odyssey, who, after ingesting the bluish lotus flower, forgot their friends and homes, wishing to stay on the island and never return.
Lacunae (lagunas in Spanish) is presented to the public as a space through which to transit and experience, visually and also through the other senses, a series of stimuli that will eventually be forgotten or remembered.