María Carolina Baulo 2021

The Veil of Memory

The Veil of Memory


 
 

Liana Strasberg – The Veil of Memory
Michel Foucault’s analysis of The Other Spaces could not be more accurate when one tries to approach the work of an artist who systematically addresses that fine line between what is real and what is apparent, what is shown and what is hidden, what it is and what is insinuated, what remains and what vanishes, the physical and psychic spaces "in transit". I do not want to give an enumeration of series and works here, but rather to approach the making of Liana Strasberg highlighting in all her production a related spirit, a primitive drive that indicates the north of her creative motivations from the material, the aesthetic and the preponderance of the ideas in its reflective dimension. A visually intense work where there is no object, sculpture or installation that does not keep an almost overwhelming conceptual density. Because the symbolic contents of the works do not only manifest problems, regrets and interests that could be self-referential for the artist but are transferred to the level of the collective unconscious and in a more or less subtle way, they cross us all.