Seismic Love

Carolina Aguirre (b.1990 in Santiago, Chile) presents her first solo exhibition Seismic love with Ruttkowski;68 in Paris. Seismic love fosters instinctual and radical connections; the boundaries between identity, body, and environment are dissolved and alternative modes of belonging are brought into being. Sculptures and paintings are grounded by natural materials; sumi ink, charcoal, calcium, and shellac form a palette that evokes moonscapes, slate, and silt. Of the paintings, the artist says her physical, floor-based process reminds her of archeology or gardening. From afar, they resemble geographical or geological formations; aerial views from a flight home, cross sections of strata. But buried within, or emerging from, these terrains are rhythms of code, figures, carvings, and body imprints from which narrative threads can be woven. The sculptures echo the paintings in spirit and form, resembling calcified creatures or animate rocks. They both shift their perceived state of being to one of continuous becoming-with, transcending temporal and corporeal borders. Seismic love integrates the viewer into these webs of meaning, playing with fluidity and kinship.