Arrullos: Juliana Gongora | Curated by Julia Buenaventura

In collaboration with: Community Coreguaje –Ko'revaju Masipai Workshop / Arte Vivo Artesanías de Colombia, María Buenaventura, Diana Sofía Estupiñán.

In a classic interview the physicist Richard Feynman was asked why magnets attract or reject each other. The physicist, after explaining that he cannot give a forceful answer, ends up taking the conversation to another question that he deems more relevant: why is it not possible to cross the wood of a chair with the hand? Well, I can push the chair, I can grab the chair, but my hand won't get through the chair. There, in matter there is an electrical energy so strong and forceful that it will push us if we insist, an energy that, although it is not the same as magnets, is similar.

Feynman’s twist in the interview is unique. I never would have wondered why my hand can’t get through a piece of wood. I’ve taken it for granted, it was not even a question to be discussed. Feynman changes the panorama, he reveals matter as force, as a "your hand has come this far", while the hand far from any passivity, responds: "this is where you: matter, have come, whatever you are: wood, chair, piece of the world, you won’t be able to handle me".