INVENTORY 7 THE LINE AND THE DOTS

18.12.2014 / 24.01.2015
CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS
PARIS
FRANCE

Elián Stolarsky, an Uruguayan artist proposes « Inventory 7, The Line and the Dots », 7th opus of a series of installations entitled "Inventory" that deals with identity and memory, and the blurry boundary between fiction and reality when talking about the past.

Inventary 7 is composed of two main pieces: The Line and the Dots. The Line is made of 43 small images carved on Plexiglas. The line is to be traversed, composed by a subsequent textures and details of carved objects. These images came both from family memories of Elián Stolarsky as from her upcoming investigation on the life of the Jewish community in Paris during the first half of the 20th Century. It’s a wide window towards the world of textures and objects that trigger memories and the constructions of new universes. It’s also about the states of being and knowing the world, a reference to Plato's Allegory of the divided line. As to The Dots, they are represented by using 16 small boxes, all of them carved by hand. The Dots are small works; they seek to reflect infinity through pictures. As Kandinsky said, the period is an essential bridge between words and silence. Drawings more stripped and transparent boxes with superposed images, The Dots are a minimalist installation in contraposition to the dense images that compose the Line.

Line and dots are the most basic elements in the creation of geometrical figures. They represent time, movement, the material world, in a constant dialogue with the origin, the drive, the spirit. For Elián Stolarsky, the carving process is a way to record and remember. The details become important and create new possible universes. As it happens with memory, it’s an insistent way of trying not to forget in order to understand where we come from and where we can decide to go.
Elián Stolarsky is the winner of the residency program of the Institut français and of the Cézanne price 2013 given by the French Embassy in Uruguay.

Carine Mosca, Curator.


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