{"id":267,"date":"2015-07-18T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T08:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/?p=267"},"modified":"2022-03-16T17:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:01:02","slug":"something-unfinished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/something-unfinished\/","title":{"rendered":"Algo pendiente"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Algo pendiente (Something unfinished)<\/h3>\n

I would have needed a little encouragement, a little kindness,
\n<\/em>leaving my way somewhat open ; instead of it, you closed it for me,
\n<\/em>undoubtedly with the good intention that I took \u00a0another way.
\n<\/em>Franz Kafka
\n\u201cLetter to the Father\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Mainly linked to painting, Alejandra Rojas Contreras\u2019s work has been exploring different ways to allow the coexistence of pictorial fragments in a recurring exercise of rupture and re-composition.\u00a0River composition<\/em>\u00a0(2014), It is your bluish sky (2013) and\u00a0Something in the air<\/em>\u00a0(2012), among other works, reflect a recurring action in the artist: fragmenting an image and working from the parts corresponding to a whole, which is revealed in its drawing and color. Her intimate relationship with mosaic and specifically with Antoni Gaudi\u2019s work, to which she dedicated much of her time on a research conducted in London and Barcelona between 2011 and 2013, is a great demonstration of her interest in the layout and pictorial construction from small or large items.<\/p>\n

By recognizing in her career this recurring inclination and coupled with investigating the possibilities of abstraction through color,\u00a0\u201cSomething unfinished\u201d<\/em>\u00a0is rather a biographical accent. There aren\u2019t the usual green and blue which appear in most of the artist\u2019s works, where there is an absence of the human figure and an ethereal atmosphere that suggests an outside landscape. Instead, \u00a0this exhibition brings together six images that make up an inner landscape extended in a relationship of abandonment with her father and an exhaustive search to rebuild his memory and thus her\u00a0 bond with him.<\/p>\n

From the transfer and the photographs intervention of her late father on paper, the artist suggests various glazes or thin layers of color in an innocent attempt to step in a still image and make it permeable. Then, reflecting on parental lack would mean \u00a0raising the father\u00b4s image and allowing her to have an authorial creation about him in order to alter everything that in life was unlikely.<\/p>\n

This exhibition is the first station of a roaming that includes three more stops. From the Italian Cultural Institute -and in an airmail painting format- it will move to Hospital San Jos\u00e9, then Conc\u00f3n, and finally the work is going to travel to Pistoia, Italy. Considering the family bond between the artist and these places (respectively; the place of her father\u00b4s death, her childhood summer house and the link with her paternal family from Pistoia), the exhibition will visit\u00a0 the past, in a process of repairing a fragmented emotional state, facing the turmoil that keeping something unfinished generates.<\/p>\n

Far from intending criticizing and condemning what a child could consider as lack of affection, these pieces seek their own way, or as Kafka said \u201cleaving my way somewhat open\u201d, as a new tool to allow speculating about a better future.<\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>Ximena Moreno Maira
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Algo pendiente (Something unfinished) I would have needed a little encouragement, a little kindness, leaving my way somewhat open ; instead of it, you closed it for me, undoubtedly with the good intention that I took \u00a0another way. Franz Kafka \u201cLetter to the Father\u201d [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Mainly linked to painting, Alejandra Rojas Contreras\u2019s work has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alejandrarojascontreras.cl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}