MOVING A MOUNTAIN

EXHIBITION

D'Amelio Terras
May 8 – June 21, 2008




01. detail of framed statement




02. installation image, southeast wall




03. installation image, south wall




04. installation image, north wall




05. detail of painting from Mexico City




06. detail of cprint of painting now in Mexico City




07. detail of framed statement




DESCRIPTION

The framed statement reads as follows:

It was the Day of the Dead, and the city was decorated with orange clusters of candles and marigolds. I took a walk down the Alameda to the Zocalo, and tried to find a restaurant my guidebook described as “inexplicably” decorated with pictures of mountains. I imagined an arrangement of several yellowing framed photographs, but when I found the address, it was closed.

It was after midnight, and I decided to return to my hotel, a modest colonial-style accommodation on Avenida Bolívar. When I closed the door behind me, I heard two lovers in the room above. One was sighing gracefully in a distinct rhythm. I took down my ponytail, began to undress, and then looked at a painting hung between the beds. I marveled at the sounds as I stared at the painting, a snow-capped mountain with a lake and a field of pink flowers. I mused at how the mountain exists with beautiful indifference. The residue of the evening mingled with the lovers above me, and I moved closer to the painting, closer to its peak.

Several months later, I decided to go back to Mexico City to take the painting, and replace it with another mountain—the one that I grew up with.