El tiempo como material para la práctica escultórica actual

Abstract

This text aims to establish the lines of relation between space and time in sculpture, faced with the challenge that new technologies offer to our temporal experience. Contemporary sculptural practice, as a realm that retains some specificities, is affected by the social demand of making space for collective memories and building historical links that may define new points of view. This is the notion of the archive applied to sculpture; it requires a conscious use of informational flows and knowledge as goods of our age. Artists working in this realm share with the sculpture tradition the ambition of creating movement and boosting the illusion of the living around the art object. However, the work of these artists feature new modalities concerning the use of time that transfers the gaze outside of the exhibition space. In this way, the materiality of the work holds a core of situations that belong to different temporalities. With this approach, and through the analysis of artists Danh Vo, Adrián Villar Rojas and Asier Mendizabal, I will argue how sculpture as medium might accomplish a synthesis of form and archive, allowing sculpture works to carry on narratives and reflect rhythms that lie outside of its material limits.