Vulnerable Solid
Curated by Eder Chiodetto
September 2024
forms
that shape the infinite
that unshape us
arrive to remind us
that life is made
to be played.
our diptych bound us
we became a single work
we only know how to live as one
my rhythm slows
with your reflection
I meditate
to the voice of the waves
the Southwest
our playground
movement
our ecstasy
we entered in this sphere
empty,
an unfamiliar place
that feels familiar
a return,
an ambiguous
feeling
this existential hollow
perhaps, looking at the past
we may come to understand
the present?
ask you,
you ask me,
all of us asking,
if in silence
we listen to one another,
if in silence
we are filled,
if we deconstruct ourselves
to reconstruct ourselves
if we unlearn
to learn, together,
to live
the memory
our editing island
shuffling
everything and nothing
the certainty
of time's unexistence
the uncertainty
of our existence
the distance
scares me
like a breath,
I begin to project my disappearance,
Alienating myself
from my own body
something hugs me
tells me that I am me
tells me who am I
a flavor
a note
hiding with you
the two of us
navigating in the same knot
shining by the moon
I search for the endless path
Luciana Rique
Vulnerable Solid
Certain artists, when confronted with the dilemmas of existence — so often shaped by oppressive narratives and traumas accumulated over a lifetime — transform the artistic gesture into a therapeutic act. Art, in such moments, erupts with its potential to transmute reality, offering a space that is both healing and deeply human.
In Vulnerable Solid, Luciana Rique once again begins with the photographic image — fragments captured through a uniquely attentive gaze. Her practice involves registering traces, quiet encounters between forms, cadences of light and elusive textures, often missed by the untrained eye. These images emerge from a contemplative state and materialise as visible expressions of an interior universe, now committed to making the heavy and rigid become volatile — lifting the weight we unconsciously carry through life.
Rique extends the language of photography, engaging it in dialogue with materials that provoke both tension and release across the body of the work. The resulting pieces radiate a sense of lightness, equilibrium, and sensorial openness — all hallmarks of her ongoing desire for transmutation.
Here, traditional photographic supports — paper, frames, glass — are reimagined. No longer mere protective vessels, they become integral to the work itself. The photograph becomes object; the glass, a surface of meaning. Reflection and opacity reveal how incidental light shapes our perception of the world.
This is a territory of reconciliation — of balances struck between opposing forces. Luciana Rique’s visual and poetic oeuvre proposes an environment capable of restoring our inner axis, one so often thrown off course by the dissonances of contemporary life. Or, as the Mexican poet Octavio Paz once wrote:
“The struggle is resolved in the poem, with the triumph of the image that embraces opposites without annihilating them.”
Eder Chiodetto