Inhabited Boundaries: Objects and Landscapes

Abstract

This proposal aims to provide a comparative analysis exercise between the work of the artist Carmen Laffón and the architect José Ramón Sierra. The text explores the relationships between objects and landscapes, as well as their boundaries. Both artists develop a multifocal understanding of the territory, which they approach by transcending scales. Intending to evoke memories or estrangements, they work with the place of objects into spaces. These objects anchor their roots in the popular and, from there, are placed in paintings, sculptures and architecture spaces. They grabbed the memory and the passage of time in inhabited spaces, considering them as elements that add value to the built environment. The diverse range of art mediums that Laffón and Sierra create: oil paintings, charcoals, painted bronze sculptures, plasters, collages, ready-mades and architectural spaces, offers a kaleidoscope of opportunities. Starting from similar premises, an endless range of graphic and material possibilities become available. In these works, the boundaries that normally separate spatial limits and different artistic disciplines have been intentionally blurred. They broke the limits of spaces through objects and mixed painting, action, installation, drawing and architecture.