Alrededor de tu piel ato y desato la míaJulio Artist Run Space, Paris8 March – 29 April 2023

Alrededor de tu piel ato y desato la mía – (Around your skin I tie and untie mine) – is the mutual decision, the intuition of artists Ángela Jimenez Durán and Sofía Salazar Rosales, that a series of inert bodies, previously touched and transformed, support each other. They impart almost human qualities to the materials they work with, like one who understands that the element responds and generously returns their gesture. Isadora Soares-Belletti, special guest on the day of the opening, will present a video that seeks to establish an interspecies relationship. Elements that will touch and follow each other, establishing an attentive bond between them.

The title of the exhibition is taken from the poem Cantar by Miguel Hernández.

Text by Pily Estrada Lecaro

Ángela Jimenez Durán and Sofía Salazar Rosales, Installation view of Alrededor de tu piel ato y desato la mía, Julio Artist Run Space, Paris, 2023

Sofía Salazar Rosales, When the axial skeleton decides to speak, 2023; Installation view of Alrededor de tu piel ato y desato la mía, Julio Artist Run Space, Paris, 2023; Glass aggregate, polyglass resin, fiberglass, bull’s eye seed, bronze powder, glass beads and vinyl glue; 178 x 81 x 26 cm

Sofía Salazar Rosales, It’s the weight of carrying a seed around the neck, 2023; Installation view of Alrededor de tu piel ato y desato la mía, Julio Artist Run Space, Paris, 2023; Forged metal, shea butter and polyglass resin; 133 x 13 x 13 cm

Sofía Salazar Rosales, Meeting spaces, 2023; , Installation view of Alrededor de tu piel ato y desato la mía, Julio Artist Run Space, Paris, 2023; Plaster and oakum; Variable dimensions