rhizome

bipersonal
karen macher + cynthia malamud
forum gallery
lima, october–november 2020

photos © juan pablo murrugarra

“A rhizome neither begins nor ends; it’s always in the middle, between things, inter-being, intermezzo” *

A process is a time, a journey, a period, which has various causes and effects. A process has times, it progresses, regresses, stops, rests. A process has losses and rewards; spaces of emptiness, questioning, and questions. Moments stagnant and without solution, as well as moments of evolution.

It’s about knowing how to pause to look again, in a different way, to take a breath and to be able to rethink. Pauses are part of processes, of life itself, you have to listen to them and feel them to understand them. It’s not stopping altogether. It’s an intermediate space through which things acquire their own speed.

Rhizome is an exhibition about these processes and works, which together can come to light and be exhibited, perhaps to continue the same process, to close it, or to keep it open. It will depend on the evolution of the work itself and the connection it establishes with the viewer.

It’s an attempt to decipher how daily life relates to aspects of our own body and how it affects us. How something broken, damaged, forgotten, or left to its fate can become evident and take on greater importance by showing us who we are, and recognizing it allows us to move forward.

The rhizome is related to a map that must be produced, constructed, always dismantled, connectable, alterable, modifiable, with multiple entrances and exits, with its lines of flight (…) with all kinds of “becomings”. *

Karen and Cynthia share many concepts and ways of working in art, weaving different materials, both respecting their own times and processes when working. These works they exhibit here (always in process), sometimes stored for years and resumed for this exhibition, were made to channel personal experiences, with a beginning but without an end. Now that they are together in space, these works converse, acquire new meaning, and weave new meanings.

Gilles Deleuze / Félix Guattari *