ESTHER RODRIGUEZ BARBERO

What makes a place sacred? What is the value of the immaterial that has not been classified? How to preserve the essence of that which keeps it alive? What words and actions are necessary?

For some time now I have been observing and working on what happens in moments of transition, when something ceases to be what it was and becomes something else, something as yet unknown. That moment when there is a multiplicity of latent possibilities. This is an invitation to look at this present from a near future to reveal some mysteries.

Esther’s artistic research practice is based on developing different mechanisms to deal with the unknown. Through performance, space, writing, orality & installation as the main mediums, she develops social and spatial practices related to the unseen, the ways it becomes visible & the potentialities of in-between space(s). Her approach comprehends the body as a medium through which we can broaden our perception of reality by understanding it as a sensor & channel where different kinds of information pass through, thus expanding our relationship with the environment. Over the past few years, Esther has developed several works that reflect upon otherness, liminality, the interrelation between different media, bodies and disciplines, bioethics, spatial relations and relationships between living systems, human&nonhuman. Some of these works deal with notions of life & death, absence-presence and other ways we relate with finitude and the unknown.