María del Pilar Aparicio
#Frontera

¨ I like being in this world and bear witness to this. ¨  María del Pilar Aparicio

ARTIST´S STATEMENT

My work involves a process of dissection, a discovery of situations and materials, understanding materiality as a register of layers that narrate time and whose articulation makes antithetical ideas visible: death implies life, the material realm implies the insubstantial realm, presence implies absence.

I often start from an autobiographical self that finds an echo in the detailed observation of the various expressions of nature. Within a practice with a strong focus on process, I use video, photography, drawing, sculpture, and installation to address my different interests.

The idea of time as a means and metaphor to address notions of change or mutability, the eternal return, the landscape affected by the man’s presence, the psyche as a possible world and the body as a place from which to think about reality.

ABOUT FRONTIER

My experience and reflection on Frontera consists of two moments; when I started with the first exercise where I decided to look at nature as if it were a second Botanical Expedition.

On the basis of the new flora findings documented by the Humboldt Institute in conjunction with ColombiaBio, in those places that are impenetrable because it is territory occupied by FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). It is therefore about borders on the territory that allow us to mark the before and after a war, which for more than fifty years has brought sadness and desolation to Colombia. The investigation is ongoing.

The second moment took place with the other exercise, which is a research process where I establish a historical analogy between the navigation maps used by the aborigines of the Micronesia Islands and my web browsing history during the process of this investigation.

The aborigines of the Micronesian Islands sailed in the Pacific to transport their monetary system, which consisted of large stone discs called the Rai. This link allows me to think of the Deleuzian rhizomatic system which is finally an image of my own mental process of how I think about Bitcoin and its blockchain technology.

I hope to find an open source that allows me to translate the information into a single image that condenses the whole thought process. The investigation is ongoing.