Patricia Domínguez Chilean, b. 1984
Unframed: 73 x 50.7 cm (28 3/4 x 20 in)
Further images
From the webs of electrical cables connecting the observatories’ multiple telescopes, Domínguez conjures a spiritual being: a chimera that could untangle our cosmic knots – from problems and questions of universal scale, to individual feelings of discord that we cannot account for.
The Cosmic Knot-Aligning Entity references a Catholic devotion popular in Latin America: Mary, Undoer of Knots, a guide to worshippers in times of confusion and nervous tension.
For the exhibition 'Three Moons Below' at Cecilia Brunson Projects, the Electric Saga watercolours are conceived as a series inset in a shrine-like, golden structure, simultaneously abstracting the architecture of CERN’s Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and the altarpieces of baroque churches. Domínguez refrains from a popular distinction between science and spirituality, asking us to put faith in what we cannot see and expand our vocabulary around the invisible and inconceivable.
Provenance
Direct from artistExhibitions
Itinerarios XXIX, Centro Botín, Santander, Spain, 2024 (forthcoming)
Three Moons Below, Cecilia Brunson Projects, London, UK, 2024