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Texto del catálogo de la exposición en La Carbonería, Buenos Aires del 1 al 15 de mayo de 2002.
Multidirectional Flight
Each child, as all of us, has spent time watching the flight of birds. To see them glide high up and far away brings about an unusual movement: an elevation of the being. If in endeavoring to permit their flight it were possible to change the direction of the wind, we would do so, doubtlessly: an eternal spirit of Ulysses unites all travelers.
Edith Matzen Hirsch has observed the rite of migration for a long time. And she has seen men and birds cross the most different skies. Therein resides an entire body of learning: of orientation, of permanence, of distance, of departures and returns. It is this learning which she transfers to images, and from them she learns new perspectives.
If one explores the idea of flying, an inward look and an outward one inexorably take turns; no coming exists without a going. If you are looking for odysseys it is existence that take place.
These and other certainties have made the artist, in the time elapsed during creation, undress the idea and reduce the recourses of the language. In the works presented, the iconographic repertoire –birds, reference points, windows- alight on the canvas underlining it as an immensity. The abstract texture thus obtained acquires an emblematic quality: it is the support marked for a voyage with a destination. We reencounter a meaning that EMH had narrated with other figures-maps belonging to a previous stage.
The evolution of her cycle of birds has focused on a specific pilgrimage and a universal journey, with its routes and turns, its freedoms and captivities, its euphorias and despairs. If all flights have a destiny, directions are multiple, even for the same route, the same traveler. And in each case art is conceived as a refuge, a station, a port, whether intermediate or final. Of each child and all of us.
Traducción: Florencia Battiti
Curadora: Alicia Romero
