Patricia Conde Galería is pleased to present 'Sonata Silente', an exhibition by artist Patricia Lagarde at the Main Gallery. At the same time, artist Laura Cohen presents 'Plantas', her latest series, at the Project Room.  

Both exhibitions are part of FOTOSEPTIEMBRE, a collective effort by the Centro de la Imagen and a network of galleries, museums, and cultural centers to organize photography month in Mexico every two years.

SONATA SILENTE

PATRICIA LAGARDE

“…for I never was so small as this before, never!”

Lewis Carroll

Fiction-spaces, in which walls are the projection of other walls, their light; the light coming from an imaginary sun, its shadows; the shadows of other shadows. Pure invention, archetypal images.

Each of these rooms is a universe in itself, which proposes and interweaves narratives: the empty room of a woman, the flight of a bird trapped between walls, the interrupted dinner, the garden that invades the interior space, an afternoon in Krakow, the intimacy of the bathroom, the incessant search for the Utopian Island.

But what does it mean to inhabit the world? What does the house represent?

The house has an eminently feminine character; the home welcomes, receives, guards, and protects; it is the place where we can constitute our identity and, at the same time, open the world.

These minimal worlds are fragile, evanescent matter.

Every dreamer who wants to can go, in miniature form, to inhabit the block, Bachelard tells us.

Intimate images speak of the outside and the inside, of primordial gestures and their imprint on objects, of inhabiting things and the things that inhabit us.

Space as a refuge and as a possibility of isolation seduces us.

- Patricia Lagarde