Sandra Cinto: In Silence

Matadero Madrid presents until August 3 the following exhibitions: In Silence, an in situ installation created by Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto and curated by David Barro as part of the Grand Scale program organized by Matadero Madrid. The event challenges the participating artists to approach a large scale industrial space and create a proposal that—in the case of the one created by Sandra Cinto—resulted in an imaginary, intimate and emphatic landscape structured from the fragile. In this manner, the space at Matadero Madrid becomes, in this instance, a room dominated by a table with which Cinto stages a feeling; that pertaining to the difficulty of creation, of composing, of manifesting. In Silence stops time, as if we were observing an old photograph, music could not be heard, as if creation was a dead end; like when a stair leads nowhere, or when books cannot be opened. All the Things that are Not There is the title of the film by Teresa Solar-Abboud presented at Matadero Madrid as an installation. The movie takes as its starting point the paradoxical relationship between the photography of US electric engineer and researcher Harold Eugene Edgerton—who made the invisible visible—and the spaces where these photographs were taken, which continue to be dark and forbidden spaces. Thus, Solar-Abboud outlines a fine line between that which cannot be seen and the observable through the partial, abrupt and fleeting dazzles from luminous flashes; a line that is strengthened by that installation that accompanies and surrounds the projection. More information is available at: www.mataderomadrid.org / 915 177 309