In the presence of the image,
we are always faced with a perception of time.
Georges Didi-Huberman
Before time
“Wait, I'll Tie My Shoe,” Natalia Castañeda's most recent work, questions the immediate and invites the viewer to pause and consider the anecdotal. The exhibition's title suggests an everyday action, a necessary interruption in the midst of a continuous event before moving forward.
Since its inception, Castañeda's work has developed from the idea of contemplation, as a slow action to understand and recognize the landscape, and as a method for comprehending the environment and the forms that make up nature. The artist uses various objects that are part of the landscape—whether natural or domestic—and recontextualizes them, maintaining an essential and poetic approach to imagery. Throughout her career, Castañeda has used different resources to expand the limits of drawing and painting—approaching sculptural processes—by creating topographical relationships between objects, space, and the viewer.
