Escribir en telaraña [Writing in a spider web], 2020
A proposal in three installments by Alan Sierra
From July 17 to August 5, 2020

Escribir en telaraña [Writing on Spider’s Webs] gathers a group of line drawings or “short stories” on a surface, which can be explored from multiple perspectives. Among the themes that recur in the work are those of non-verbal languages, the ambiguity of sense perceptions, and certain fictions that caricature the limitations of a human being’s reading capacity. Just as the images can be read as autonomous stories, the way they are brought together suggests the possibility of other narratives.

The whole as it is displayed on the page challenges our ability to read as a faculty built on hierarchies that range from specialized fields of knowledge to what we take in through our senses in everyday life. At the same time, the distribution makes a nod in the direction of the grid layout whereby our reading experience is administered on certain digital platforms.

In the course of the exhibition, the conversation will change as new narratives are added in three different stages.

Sala Abierta is an intangible space that is part of the MAZ galleries.

Alan Sierra (Mexico, 1990)

Alan Sierra is an artist who also works as a curator, writer, and professor for various initiatives. His practice reconfigures elements of everyday life to highlight their ambiguities and contradictions. His work includes texts, drawings, small-format sculptures, and live actions. This year, Nonverbal, his first book of drawings, was published by Gato Negro. He is currently part of the SOMA Educational Program.