BODIES INSIDE EACH OTHER
Mixed media installation
Glass, ice, ceramic, analog photography in lightbox
2019 - 2022

In the high mountains of Colombia grows the frailejón, a plant that captures moisture from the fog through its leaves and then releases the water through its roots. Bodies inside each other is a installation that explores the relationship between the frailejón and its environment. An ice-filled glass bowl inspired by the inside of the plant transforms the ice through condensation into drops of water, which are collected in a ceramic bowl shaped like the plant’s stem. Jazmin Rojas Forero sees her sculpture as a body in which the atmosphere can manifest itself.



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III Premio Salón de Arte Jóven
Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia
2019

Mixed media installation
Ceramic, glass, ice, stone, contact speakers, analog photography
2019
Bodies inside each other explores our relationship of interconnection and reciprocity with the atmosphere and plants, from observing the Frailejón, a plant that inhabits the páramo ecosystem in Colombia. In the installation converge a series of sculptural gestures that were the result of the process of biological and ecological research of the plant, the writing of a field diary and experimentation with organic and electronic materials.
During the process I realized that no matter how deeply I looked inside the plant, even through the microscope, the plant revealed to me its relationship with the fog, the rains, the intense sun, the low and high temperatures of the territory. The question of who came first, the páramo or the frailejón, is impossible to answer, both have built their home.
The ceramic pieces were conceived in analogy to the dead leaves that make up most of the plant. The frailejón creates a thick layer of dead matter around its trunk to keep it from freezing. I began to find relationships between the plant and the mediums of my artistic practice. The association between the leaves' constant cycle of life and death with the phenomenon of feedback in sound led me to take a microphone and a contact speaker and listen to the ceramic pieces to provoke the feedback and thus make a unique sound emerge from the material, provoked by itself.
The glass piece contains ice inside and since the temperature is lower than the environment, it condenses water from the atmosphere on its walls and every so often a drop of water falls on a rock.
I conceive the sculptures as bodies for the atmosphere to manifest itself, containers that reveal the space and the matter where they are arranged. The installation reveals and invites us to consciously inhabit this fluid body, phantasmagoric matter, apparently "non-living", but which interconnects us.






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