CHOREOGRAPHY FOR A PIECE OF FURNITURE AND A DRESS WITHOUT A ROOM
Delia Boyano
From 13 Apr to 11 Jun 2023
The horizon isn’t visible. The landscape goes on forever and is filled with trees, so many that our eyes cannot take them all in. The fallen leaves crunch beneath our feet as we walk. Sunlight filters through the branches and strikes our faces. In her eagerness to escape, to cease being just another faceless citizen who lives with job insecurity, poverty-level wages, and institutional violence, Delia has led us into a fairytale wood. This forest has no walls, but it does have cities. And this time it is their turn to follow her instructions, to be deliberately, premeditatedly guided at every step. This time it not they but Delia who sets the pace.
The score proposes:
Turn the elbow in a downward motion
The gesture is that of a swimmer pushing water aside
Wanting to fly is important
Whoever wants to continue, take two steps forward
Place both hands on your head
The scarf on your head and the hand flips it over
Then do a full turn and remove the hand
Lower one hand and then the other and wave the scarf from side to side
Turn the arm from below
Turn the arm from above
¡Let the choreography begin!
The exhibition catalogue contains texts by Paloma de la Cruz
Openning: April 13, to 6pm
Guided tour: April 13, to 6pm
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GAlLERY
Málaga, 1994
Earned a BFA from the Universidad de Málaga in 2016 and an MA in Performance: Design and Practice from Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London in 2018. She has two solo shows under her belt: La corona de la Reina at the gallery of the Málaga Fine Arts Faculty (2017) and The Cucumber Sandwich Club at Galería JM in Málaga (2017).
She was also invited to participate in the JMenvivo performance series (Galería JM, Málaga, 2019) and various group exhibitions, including Between Monochrome and Kitsch (Centro Cultural MVA, Málaga, 2019), El jardín secreto (MUPAM, Málaga, 2019), Cómo se cuentan las cosas (gallery of the Málaga Fine Arts Faculty, 2017) and A Minute Ago (Zabludowictz Collection, London, 2018). Boyano was selected for the Creadores 2020 residency at La Térmica and received a research grant as a 2019–2020 UMA graduate artist-in-residence. In the European arena, she enjoyed the Inteatro Festival creative residency at Villa Nappi (Polverigi, Italy) while she was a master’s student at Central Saint Martins (2017 and 2018), a performing arts residency at the Rabbithole Theatre (Athens, 2017) and the JOYA: AiR residency (Almería, 2019). In 2021, she won first prize in the visual arts competition MálagaCrea.
