TIEMPOANIMAL(TIMEANIMAL 2022-2025)
Galería Extra, Guatemala City
January 29 - April 11, 2025
Tiempoanimal explores the thresholds between the human, the animal, and the mineral as territories where mind and body, matter and experience, intertwine. Through pictorial scores and interactive devices, the exhibition invites viewers to perceive time through the body: blinks that alter temporal perception, hands that measure the remaining light at sunset, and feet that read space through movement. In these practices, the body becomes an instrument for measurement and sensory activation, challenging the dichotomies of Western thought and proposing an embodied form of knowledge.
The materiality of the works—pigments such as cochineal, indigo, volcanic and bone ash, and Pacific sand—activates geological, historical, and political memories. Bones, transformed into pigments or letter stamps, propose a mineral language that links the human to the earthly. These materials, shaped by histories of extraction and colonization, are re-situated in somatic rituals where direct experience replaces intellectual distance, shifting responsibility to the body that receives them.
Curated by Paola Jasso and developed in collaboration with Galia Eibenschutz during a curatorial laboratory in Morelia, Mexico, the exhibition draws on María Zambrano’s notion of the clearings of the forest—spaces of encounter between the visible and the invisible. Tiempoanimal invites us to inhabit these clearings: transitional territories where time is felt, the world is measured with the feet, read with the bones, and where matter speaks through its own voice. The exhibition culminated in a curatorial and participatory gathering between the artist, Paola Jasso, and Galia Eibenschutz.
Photos by Margo Porres
