We are pleased to announce our participation in Art Düsseldorf, from 17 – 19 April,  booth  G07, where we will be dedicating our booth to a solo presentation of Leonor Serrano Rivas.

The installation Freshwater Serpent consists of an autonomous structure functioning as a contained fountain. Rising from a metallic base, the water circulates through a network of hollow tubes and emerges from within the grafts of electrolyted flowers. It glides over them, dripping down and slowly modifying the patinas of these flowers. The work adopts the logic of a myth, its accumulative, cyclical, material, situated qualities, instead of illustrating a specific myth. What once accumulated now dissolves; the brightness is rewritten. The work changes, reconfigures itself slowly through that constant movement. “Freshwater Serpent” does not represent anything external to itself; rather, it functions as a closed ecosystem. There is no allegory. There are materials that think.

Patrones de Ritmo examines bodies of water and their ecosystems simultaneously from a macro and micro perspective. Based on a project Serrano Rivas was commissioned to create by TBA21 for the Venice lagoon, it attempts to recreate the vastness of the lagoon in a small bowl. Serrano Rivas draws here on a Renaissance theory by Athanasius Kircher, according to which, to understand a system, one has to recreate it on a micro level. This model was then filmed by Serrano Rivas, and from this film she took stills, which she transformed into Jacquard tapestries. Each colour is coded in a specific stitch; together, the weaving forms an iridescent and mesmerising surface, reminiscent of water.