'On the Invisible' is Glenda León’s first exhibition at Max Estrella. It consists of a series of works whose reflections move in several directions while pursuing a similar goal: to connect with the indefinable, with the intangible, in order to establish a dialogue between different cultures and different ways of seeing the world. From doubt, it is easier to bring positions closer together. The exhibition by the Hispanic-Cuban artist is structured around the performance/installation CONVERSIO. In Classical Latin, the term translates as “turn, rotation, change of orientation.”
Faced with the uncertainty caused by the convulsive turns of history and the progressive erosion of religions, I think— in tune with Hilma af Klint— that art can become a refuge, a space in which to imagine and perhaps invoke a different world. Museums and galleries then reveal themselves as temples of a new kind. Alongside visual art, music and dance return to their most primordial essence: ritual.
This exhibition continues a line of research I have been developing for more than twenty-five years, focused on the invisible interrelation of every element of our existence and on the intersection of different artistic languages. Sound has been part of my practice since its beginnings, whether integrated directly into the works or, in the case of performances, through collaboration with DJs. On this occasion I incorporate dance for the first time, linked to a fundamental stage of my life: the years in which I trained in classical ballet.
Numerous philosophical, scientific, and even religious texts—from the Tao to Plato—as well as various Indigenous American cosmogonies, enter into dialogue with this idea formulated by string theory within the field of quantum physics: matter and forces are conceived as patterns of vibration, a fundamental harmony unfolding in a multidimensional space. From these ancient and contemporary forms of knowledge, reality begins to be understood as a field of interdependencies and resonances.