Bienal de Pontevedra

At the Illa das Esculturas (island of sculptures), in Pontevedra, Soledad Penalta presents a monumental sculpture symbolising the infinite through a series of granite modular forms that vaguely refer to the geometry of fighter planes, but without underlining their violent nature. There is no heroism here, but a critical gaze that dislocates the epic of the strength to focus, instead, on the fragility and drift of our species. The artist proposes a space to reflect on the human condition and invites us to consider art as a political language that questions our existence, our contradictions and our relation with the world. It reflects the contemporary conflict by showing the tension and insecurity of our time and the fragility of an uncertain future. In a present time marked by uncertainty, Mirando inacabable suggests a pause; a halt to question about the place that art has in a society filled with vertigo, disaffection and symbolic violence. Can art still pose questions without falling into the trap of the spectacle? Can the silence of the stone say what words alone cannot? Soledad Penalta's work does not seek answers, but a radical openness, that of what is not resolved, what remains in suspense, like those questions that do not need to be answered and continue to vibrate in those who stop before them.