Bombon is very happy to invite you to the opening of the exhibition Wordless and Earthen by Joana Escoval next Thursday September 15th during the Barcelona Gallery Weekend.

“Escoval’s entire oeuvre is permeated by a meticulous exploration of the impermanence, interconnections, and synergies that take shape in a body of work reduced to essential components. Transient and finely balanced, her sculptures invite us to walk along the edges of human consciousness, enabling a perception of our environment that is more sensed and experienced than looked at. This exhibition refers to the power of the wind to be in contact simultaneously with all the surfaces it touches, translating its pressure into movement and sound.

The wind achieves the ultimate dream of connecting terrestrial surfaces and all bodies in unison. It immerses us in the discrete currents that flow through a system of ‘vital technologies’ composed of metal and clay sculptures kissed by the blaze. Uprooted (semi-)containers float in the exhibition space, receptive to the movements of bodies in the gallery; the combined cadences of exhalations; the sudden bursts caused by a door, a window, or a few interstices; the note emitted by the breath passing through an instrument modulating the wind or the imperceptible energies channeling through metal conductors. The whole room is activated by the power of the deep and steady current of shared respiration that pierces the walls, ceilings and floors. Flowing, shaking, vibrating, infra-thin gusts combine all the particles present in the exhibition space, and beyond.”

Text by Joël Vacheron