It’s the weight of carrying a seed around the neck, 2023

Sofía Salazar Rosales, It’s the weight of carrying a seed around the neck, 2023; Forged metal, cocoa butter, gauze, metal mesh, plaster and epoxy resin; 140 × 100 × 30 cm

In Sofía Salazar Rosales’ sculptural series It’s the weight of carrying a seed around the neck (2023), the artist reproduces construction and planting equipment. Once installed installation, however, these devices are bent and tired. Treated with affection by the artist, who handles the objects with pads of gauze and cocoa butter to hydrate and warm them, they are like transitional objects, deeply related to her process of separation from her homeland, as well as to the need to, as she says, ‘‘take root’’. The weight of carrying a seed around the neck references Léonora Miano’s vision of frontier identities anchored in a permanent space by care and affection, not rupture.

Excerpt from the curator Juliana Caffé text