Said of conversations or discourses that are lengthy
and insubstantial, and sometimes without foundation.

 

Güirigüirear is the experience and the pleasure of speaking and doing with that which words fail to capture: the void. It is building zigzagging bridges between words, ideas, and visual artistic production.

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This collaborative and multidisciplinary project, titled GÜIRIGÜIRI, is composed of videos, installations, sculptures, sound, and objects that emerged as fertile remnants of eight months of periodic gatherings at Sol del Río. During this time, visual artists Jamie Bischof, Lourdes de la Riva, and Regina Prado, along with the güirigüireros Rodolfo Arévalo and Paulina Zamora, entered into hours of conversations in which, at times, they pondered “truth” and, at times, almost everything dissolved.

An experience in which the others (the public) were not the protagonists. The protagonist was the subject who observes, doubts, questions, and does something with the void of re-sponses. Just like the lines and geoglyphs of Nazca were made: with an unawareness of their purpose. Lines that confront us with a design that goes beyond conditions of concealment, seduction, or functionality.

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They confront us with their clarity—like the clarity in Lourdes’s approach to termites, Regina’s concern for environmental health, and Jamie’s sharp presentation, which—at the risk of overinterpretation—may be read as those everyday decisions we make without knowing exactly what their outcome will be.

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Los Güirigüireros, November 2015 – July 2016