Alicia Velázquez. Unsere Zeit
4.–20.10.2024 Wasserkirche, Zurich (daily 14–18 Uhr, Mondays closed)
Vernissage Thursday 3.10.2024, from 16.30 H
If we were landscapes, what would we be? - Between February and March 2023, Alicia Velázquez conducted interviews with 13 residents of the Bürgerasyl-Pfrundhaus retirement home in Zurich. In these encounters, she learned about personal highs and lows, flowing and fading dreams, new corners and similar edges. She then listened to the recordings of what was said, noted down her impressions, and translated her own and collected memories into unglazed clay objects. Adding then acrylic colored brushstrokes to the fired objects.
"Unsere Zeit" links Velázquez's practice between performance and visual art and invites an exchange between the generations. In a society that likes to relegate ageing to the margins of coexistence, there are few places for images of people that remind us of the limitations of our time. Velázquez's 13 abstract portraits ignore superficialities and conveniences and instead show living imprints of time that resonate in the here and now.
Text (translated from original): Bassma el Adisey, curator of the exhibition
Project and exhibition supported by:
Covid-Arbeitsstipendium 2022 der Stadt Zürich Kultur, Cassinelli-Vogel-Stiftung, Wasserkirche Zurich.