¿Cuando todo se acabe? - Artishock Magazine

Note - https://artishockrevista.com/2024/10/17/augusta-lecaros-y-alonso-catalan-cuando-todo-se-acabe/

Text in English below: 

This exhibition invites us to conceive the act of remembering not as an effort to preserve, but as a process of gathering—a survey of what still remains, without the intention of rescuing it from oblivion. It suggests that art is not a vehicle to immortalize or preserve a moment or object in time, but rather a way of engaging with the past through its fragments.

Augusta and Alonso, friends for only a few months, discover shared memories of their childhood homes and bond over the sense that what was once familiar is crumbling—not as something tragic, but as a natural process. Their works are not rooted in preserving or reconstructing the past, but in interacting with what remains of it. Here, each memory is a fragment allowed to exist in its fragility, in an environment where everything seems destined to disappear.

The synastry of their collaborative work arises partly from the similarities in their childhoods and partly from how their differences intertwine and transform into the pieces we see today. This layer of intimacy gives rise to a new narrative as each work is created together.

Far from seeking eternal protection for memory, the body of work assembled by the artists is a collection of scattered fragments, where memories of their childhood homes in El Monte and San Antonio are not meant to be preserved, but gathered. Through sculptures, drawings, photographs, and audiovisual installations, they explore the calm of a generation that no longer fears disappearance, but instead reconciles with collapse.

And perhaps, when everything is over, all we'll have left are the ruins of our memories.