Twisted Memories
Agustina Nuñez
Juan Hitters
“What makes one be himself over time? And yet, one has forgotten most of the past. What is remembered of the past is minimal. And what is forgotten is almost everything. Every day thousands of perceptions, thousands of memories, nostalgia, maybe hells and skies are erased too. And all that remains in some images.”[1]
Jorge Luis Borges, Encuentro con
las Artes y las Letras, RTVE, 1976.
In Twisted Memories, the work of Agustina Nuñez and Juan Hitters dialogues about memory: the stories told and those omitted, distorted or condensed. Both artists explore the blurred line between reality and fantasy, the curves that trigger the viewer's imagination. In this case, Nuñez's paintings, almost monochromatic, provide indications of familiar, organic and genderless forms. Its absence of colour and clean, nearly pristine strokes, defy the limits of form, exploring the relationship between presence and emptiness, memories and silence. The artist, through her synthesis, creates harmonic and complementary figures, open to be freely decoded by each observer.
On the other hand, Hitters, through his photography, provides colour to the story. His work abstracts familiar corners, capturing them from a foreign and silent presence. Thus, we become voyeurs of spaces of intimacy, accomplices of possible secrets: witnesses of spectral appearances and disruptive experiences. His walls immortalize stories that will remain unspoken, acting as reminders of the ephemeral nature of our existence.
Luz Hitters, 2019, Curator
[1] Borges, Jorge Luis, Paloma Chamorro, José Luis Jover, and Marcos Ricardo Barnatán. 1976. Encuentro con las Artes y las Letras - RTVE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AenSuU0cZoQ.
