A line destined to vanish: Rodrigo Zamora

Isolina Arbulu gallery presents the work of Chilean artist Rodrigo Zamora (Santiago 1970), a fragmented universe in which the artist invites the viewer to complete through his gaze the reconstructed elements that are presented to us, being our subjective perception the one that completes the meaning of his work.

Zamora starts his creative process from observation, long searching walks allow his camera to capture objects and landscapes that will later become passive subjects. It is his feet that initiate the creative process where his gaze rescues everyday objects that go unnoticed in the immensity of the landscape, universal objects with no defined place. Thus a forest in China is confused with a traffic sign in Chile or a façade in Argentina, creating a universality without frontiers.

The artist surprises us with the use of watercolour as the main medium in an exhibition that presents fifteen large-format works on paper. The artist cuts out the initial image, which will be constructed under his brush in a random and disorderly manner, only coming together at the end of the process, and thus creating a universe of diffuse and confused lines that our mind tries to align. The exhibition brings together works from different periods but with the common link of the line that disappears but stubbornly remains in our imagination. The exhibition is completed by a cardboard sculpture that represents an everyday object whose usefulness is distorted by being represented in a very fragile material, and a cardboard installation that seeks confusion between real and imagined shadows.
 
Zamora's works are surprisingly rich, but take on a different reading at short distances. As happens in many aspects of our lives, it is the distance of the observed object that transmits us one reading or another, it is our imagination and our own established codes that allow us to complete the lines that disappear. Just as our memory fills in the part of the memories that are diluted, reinterpreting reality as it best suits our experiences, Rodrigo's work allows us to adapt it to what we expect to see.

It is in the short distances where imperfections are impossible to ignore, Rodrigo confronts us with the reality of deception, with the lines and borders that disappear but that our brain insists on maintaining.