The Galería Elba Benítez is pleased to announce the coming exhibition of new work by Miroslaw Balka, opening Saturday, February 21.
Titled LOS OLVIDOS (The Forgettings), the exhibition will consist of a selection of artworks (primarily sculptures and drawings) that, in formally different yet indelibly poetical ways, approach the theme of memory and forgetting on personal, societal and archetypal levels. As is characteristic of Balka’s practice, the works on view evolve from existing objects and historical references, drawing on the layers of meaning those objects and references have often accrued — or, just as often, lost — through use and disuse over time. The exhibition will include a sculptural installation in which members of the public — witnesses, in Balka’s preferred terminology, more that spectators — participate by contributing doormats from their own dwelling places to create a collaborative work positioned, like memory and forgetting, at the threshold between arrival and departure.
