Windowsill, London
2020
On an outdoor windowsill, the artist Laía Argüelles Folch places several sheets of blotting paper and leaves them under the action of the weather for weeks. These three polyptychs replicate the gesture in different cities where the artist has lived: London, Zaragoza and Berlin. After the initial arrangement, the work develops without intervention, allowing the sunlight, wind and rain to deteriorate the paper, wearing it down and accumulating material traces. Arranged in a row, the polyptychs become an abstract window to the outside, open to a multiple time: sequence, magnitude, atmosphere and ageing.
Diptych. Weathering record on blotting paper.
61,1 x 24,8 x 3 cm.; 62,1 x 24,8 x 3 cm. frames
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Laía Argüelles Folch
Laía Argüelles Folch is a visual artist and writer. Interested in the potential of images and language as a way of relating to the world, the artist addresses notions such as materiality, collection and repetition, through exercises in assemblage, folding and unfolding.
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