ERINA LIBERTAD : LO QUE QUEDA (WHAT REMAINS) | HANNAH SLOAN CURATORIAL LOS ANGELES

[00:00:00]Hello, my name is Irina Libertad.

[00:00:03]We're at Hannah's Lawn Gallery and this is my show Lo que queda, what remains.

[00:00:09]This is a show that I wanted to share about movement.

[00:00:16]I'm a dancer and I really like to get people thinking of what they do with their body, not what they're capable of doing like amazing things, but the things that we do every day, how we move, how is your body in the space.

[00:00:34]So, I really wanted to invite you to play on a space that I designed for you to move in a different way that you do like every day. So, the whole idea is to show you something that my grandmother showed me when I was little is a this game with a string that you get to do like a this amazing shape that is called el catre. This is the final shape and I got obsessed with it. I started like making many and a in different ways for different things. I have this one also.

[00:01:18]I We have this video of the movement that got a figured out and choreographed to do the giant ones because each person has to be the hand.

[00:01:31]So, it got into an investigation and in this area you can see is my grandmother's a living room where we hang out all the time and where everything happens at the her house. So, I wanted to give you a space so you can see the video. This is called catre TV.

[00:01:48]It's the catre is the center of all of these investigations. So, these are the instructions for making the catre. There are four different instructions.

[00:02:00]And I wanted to propose that each one of these represents a movement, and how would this look for you? You can use your your neck, your hands, your toes, your whatever part of your body you think that these might be or this movement might represent.

[00:02:19]And inviting you to a danceable space. This is a catre, the final shape.

[00:02:26]And the idea is to make like a little bed where you can sleep or a little hammock.

[00:02:31]So, I wanted to make catres real size.

[00:02:36]So, I came up with these giant catres that you can see around.

[00:02:43]And then I made some others to make these like um to show the depth inside of them. And also these spots where you can just lay down and look up through the catres up to the sky.

[00:03:01]And just like I don't know, play, imagine, think about the idea of just looking through something that is different and it gives you a different perspective.

[00:03:14]Investigating about movement, what you can do, where you can go.

[00:03:20]How to move to see all the things that you get to see just because you're sitting somewhere else or looking through something.

[00:03:29]So, yes, that's the idea of this installation.

[00:03:35]So, this is what I called a danceable space. It's where there's some signs and marks on it where you can step on and do um what this instruction would mean for you.

[00:03:50]So, each case is different. And here we have the mirror so you can practice each one.

[00:03:55]Let's say the first one is just arms.

[00:04:00]So, I can just practice here and then go and make a round of that movement that I just invented.

[00:04:07]So, for me, this one, here and here, and then however I want to play with it, right? Just going through the space, following instructions, doing whatever I feel like, and then there are some spots.

[00:04:26]These ones, too. Look at the sky again.

[00:04:31]So, this little space is one of my favorites. And it has my grandmother's poem. She doesn't remember where it came from, but it's right here. And at 3:00 p.m., the light coming highlights this very specific spot, so I really liked it because I like to play also with the instructions of the space, right?

[00:04:54]Um that's why I really like this.

[00:04:58]Being under the stairs and having a different perspective again of everything that's going on around and having this like a space that is not normally used for you to experience and get to to remember how how it feels like to be in a small space, how it feels like just sitting on the floor, just looking at things from down here.

[00:05:26]So, this is one of my favorite places for that.

[00:05:31]So, while I was making many, many cathedrals, I really liked the shadow and the silhouettes because it's also what remains. It's also lo que queda, right?

[00:05:43]What stays there. So, I made this series of different backgrounds through my grandmother's house.

[00:05:53]And this is a plant, and this is rug.

[00:05:57]But, I really like the individual uh shapes that can make that look like something else. That something deeper than what I I was seeing when I was looking just at my hands. So, in this space, people is enjoying sitting here just again seeing things from another space.

[00:06:18]This is a space where well, my imaginary grandmother is here just sitting with me, just hanging out and drinking coffee and making things with her hands. I'm also a designer, and I really like working with a sewing machine.

[00:06:36]I started making catres into textiles, and I started working in different ways with the sewing machine as a dance between us, as a duet.

[00:06:50]I was proposing things, but I was listening also to what the machine was proposing. If things like this happened, where the machine just takes the the textile and is just in a huge tension, I will keep it like that because it's like kind of what happens with the catre, too, right? The tension.

[00:07:13]Um I got obsessed and I started drawing catres like every day. So, this piece I really liked it because it was like my obsession. I just wanted to wake up and draw more and more and more.

[00:07:25]I wanted to see what was behind.

[00:07:29]What is deeper? What is between all of these uh that I'm seeing, these catres that I'm obsessed about. So, these series are the choreography that I created to get to make the giant catres.

[00:07:45]So, this is one time with a person and this is another time with another person. Every catre is super different. Every time you make one is different. The movements are different. The sizes of the bodies are different. So, it has a different shape at the end.

[00:08:04]I also wanted to make like these pictures that is just me holding on to all of this installation. This is also what remains, what is there, lo que queda, when I'm not here, you know?

[00:08:20]So, this is me also like holding a bit of this installation.

[00:08:26]And I wanted to I was joking about this is at the beginning like holding with all of my strength. Then in the middle like just like working on it. And then at the end just absolutely like tired and like exhausted by all what happened here.

[00:08:46]But it's like a really good way of of seeing it, like where it took me, like all this obsession, all of this working with catres.

[00:08:54]It got me so tired, but also like so amazingly satisfied of all what was behind.

[00:09:02]And also what's left to discover, of course.