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Texto del catálogo de la exposición: "...en cada tiempo algunos quebrantan y otros reparan..." - Instalación - en el Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires del 1 al 25 de abril de 2004
A renewable pact
From its very beginnings, the artistic work of Edith Matzen Hirsch moves along the lines of a conscious uniqueness. With an attentive eye on the contemporary artistic manifestations, her work favors the dialogue rather than a simple adhesion: an interchange that recovers the topics and aesthetic issues of today, without avoiding the perpetual questions of Art.
Such a work stemms from a visual exploration of the identity and the importance given to cultural synthesises, especially the ethic, linguistic and artistic ones. A thought that presents morality and what is immanently social. All these conceptual elements are present in her expression from start, and have multiplied the diversity of the particular and the universal. It is however evident an evolution from word to Discourse, from the sign to the Symbol, from the narrations to the Story itself. This is the spirit of the installation “…there have always been those who break and those who mend…”
In order to be faithful to the work, if this were possible, we should trace back the linking chain proclaimed by its appearance. Simple, plain, basic bearings: warmth materials, recognizable graphics, everyday gestures, constituent verbs, non-temporal writings. Afterwards, the reminiscences of shared knowledge: revelation, testimony, law, word, letter, punishment, forgiveness, Decalogue, commandment, pact… the old and the new; the renewable.
When using and displaying these well known materials, not only are there evidence and an inescapable intention in the text, but also room for the diversity of reading that demands a fine tuning when perceiving and reflecting. If Art has heralded -once and again in the course of history- the subject in the work of E.M.H. as a means of saying in a especially significative way, then what was said by this Law –that people hold as divine- has also suffered an unfair interpretation and execution.
Why returning over impossible imperatives? Perhaps, they lay as a commonplace in Art and in Law; the way in which they coexist; the reason for their indigent permanence. Who is who it is? “…there have always been those who break and those who mend…” addresses the Being; it brings it towards the chronology; it calls a truce. Dynamics, reciprocal action and balance are some of the relations “between” them; suspended. Days and beings are summoned in their inexorable display of knowledge and will.
Task to be performed by both, memory and reflection, about a “now” –with an imprint on each of the past, present and future contexts-, the work of E.M.H. embodies the desire over which each of us, according to our existence, can neither stop wondering nor vulnerably wanting to answer to.
Música: “El regreso” de Francisco Kroepfl
Curador: Rodolfo Agüero
Traducción: Florencia Battiti
Diseño: Marina Lerch
