L’insularité prend tout son sens…
2025
L’insularité prend tout son sens... is the title of Sofía Salazar Rosales’ first solo exhibition in Paris. The title points to one of the exhibition’s central concerns: locating oneself—bodily and in spirit.
Installation views
About the exhibition
The title points to one of the exhibition’s central concerns: locating oneself—bodily and in spirit.
In a recent poem written to accompany her journey, and that of the person she loves and who loves her, toward a territory woven into her lineage, she writes: “Habitar lo desconocido / Ya no más en lugares que poco a poco nos pertenecen como París / Sino uno de los lugares de donde viene mi ombligo vulnerable.” (To inhabit the unknown / no longer in places that little by little come to belong to us, like Paris / but in one of the places from which my vulnerable navel comes.) For several years now, Salazar Rosales has devised forms that carry stories of movement—or more precisely, of diasporic detours. Detour is intrinsic to diasporic experience; it is what articulates its complexity. These are necessary detours, at work and for life: they constrain, they compel, and they are passed on, from one body to another.
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In Sofía Salazar Rosales’ sculpture and installation, fruits and flowers are torn up and transplanted in cargo planes; so are the complicit-captive packaging systems that enable such transport; then the migration of materials and commodities; and finally the migration of forms—their slides and modulations, their aesthetic sense—constantly reworked to narrate diasporic detours and let us hear their vibration. The exhibition begins in the gallery courtyard: a way for Salazar Rosales to set a landscape, to project herself and us into it, and to let the longing for a never-visited home, a never-inhabited place, permeate. It is a story between ancestors and plants.
It is the story of a tree: the yagrumo. A pale apparition within a frenetic tropical green, shaggy with filaments that turn it into a chromatic signal—leading, once upon a time, cimarrones toward the palenques 1. It no longer leads: that story belongs to the past; and yet the tree remains.
Exhibition details
- Dates
- 2025
- Location
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Bremond Capela
13 rue Béranger, 75003 Paris - Artist
- Sofía Salazar Rosales
- Photography
- Nicolas Brasseur