Press release
/ Nota de prensa
Escape is Aldo Chaparro’s (Lima, Peru, 1965) new work. Its title
introduces us to the idea of abandoning a certain place, breaking free
from confinement or from a controlling power. The idea of escaping implies
a dislocation, a movement and action that deny a previous condition,
searching for a better situation, either physical or mental.
Structured around three pieces, Escape also deals with
the antinomy inside/outside, suggesting that the ‘outside’
dimension is so much integrated and active in an interior space that
it prompts an endlessness of the exterior in the interior and viceversa.Therefore,
the different variations of this ‘escape’ (being it a verb,
‘to escape’, or a noun, a means of getting away from something
or somewhere) determine an eternal development of this work and of this
concept, transforming it in an endless and constant evasion.
First work of Chaparro’s Escape trilogy:
it consists of a long, narrow opening on a wall through which one can
see a black pyramid made of acrylic, containing thousands of white LED
lights. These lights are connected with an audio piece specially composed
for the effect by Gorka Alda, an electroacoustic composer who researches
the relations between matter and space through his practice. The reflection
of the LED lights onto the black, shinny surface of the acrylic generates
an endless reproduction of the original luminous spark. This effect
enhances the deepness of the entire structure, as it is perceived from
the external observer. There is a clear tension between exterior and
interior: on one hand the physical access to the inside of the installation
is denied and we can only look at it from a fissure; on the other, it
seems that everything is happening in its interior, with all those small
fiery particles that are thrown off from the light sources in an endless
twinkling effect. The Escape proposed by Chaparro is an invitation to
a constant disquietude. A dialectic dialogue between an inside that
is more external that any outside because it is pulsing and vibrating
with energy, almost about to explode.
