Todo lo que puede pasar

By María José Arjona

María José Arjona’s most recent work finds its genesis in drawings, collages, sketches, sheets and objects, which delve into the investigation and conception of a cosmology; where the desire to express the ineffable of existence, the condition of the body in space, and the notion of time lies incessantly; recurring themes in her work. Arjona combines and converges in this work a series of ideas that she has individually explored in previous works, especially through performance (which is the core of her artistic work and her means of expression par excellence), and which she takes up from another perspective, opening to a new territory of experimentation with materiality, as a necessary process stage prior to the performatic act, and which before its final culmination, must pass through several stages of evolution; resulting in an extensive project that will mature as it travels.

In these drawings, the artist inscribes cosmogonic symbols and concepts that speak about the origin of the Universe and its meaning. The drawings that are perceived individually conform a diagram, a large constellation that relates these elements as a set, and that will serve as a guide in the interpretation of the objects and installations that will be part of the subsequent collective performative activation; where these signs will come alive in the physical bodies that will stage this compendium of realities. The symbols that make up the drawings, represent - as archetypes - a series of forces that move the body and which the artist proposes and represents in five categories of horizontal planes: The beyond; The cosmos; The fog, the Earth and the Infra-World; which in turn are connected by an “Oracle” that has the great power to transit each space generating a vertical line, connecting each other.