THE LIGHTNING AND THE ROCK ​

 

Romina Baigorria presents herself as a painter, and in this reading, at least, there are two key points to discuss in her work: on one hand, the dissolution of the margin that indicates the beginning of a painting, a gesture that gives rise to the sensation of being inside a painting as soon as one enters the room. And, on the other hand, the alternation of textures, light sources, values, and scales with which she works.

Through her works, the artist creates instances where the sensible qualities of things reveal themselves as latent input for generating small fissures in the common experience of time. She defines assemblies where one space seems to inscribe itself within another, softening edges and opening access to disconcerting situations between objects and light.

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Romina Baigorria's project is unique and straightforward; she proceeds with ease, organizing elements to provoke states, now legible as the result of a type of communication that relies on the works as if they were the medium through which a message propagates without emitters. The Lightning and the Rock is an exhibition that unfolds a series of alterations produced by the echo of this conversation Baigorria engages in with things, where painting is a way of leaving and returning, of gaining perspective and inaugurating territories of total strangeness within the home, behind any door, and without exuberant contrivances. Throughout her work, she takes refuge in the shimmering gait of a type of painting that is restless and multimedia, concerned with amalgamating stimuli and forms to invoke displacements. Painting is, in this case, an internal struggle to open horizons without latitude, without time, and without sorrow.

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Carlos Gutiérrez

Marzo 2025