¡Suspira rápido que van a demoler el jardín!: Material de estudio: Laura Ceballos Castilla, Natalia Castillo Ramirez, Ana María Roa Limongi | Curated by carolina Cerón
We begin from silence. Slowly, connecting circles that come together with the bodies of this dialogue between a plant and three women. Being with the guadua starts with asking: What does it say? How does it say it? And only silence comes from that cane. It starts to speak slowly; you have to sit down to listen to it with patience and gentleness.
. We bring out tools that help us fragment time because the plant showed us it was a way of speaking. We sit together with it without seeking any form. The form emerges from the balance that will come later. Slower, more attentive, with care not to cut yourself. Stop, without hurry. Tie knots. Strong knots. When a new guadua plant begins to grow from a knot, it becomes thicker, more consistent, stubborn. Stubbornness is like a boundary, the way the guadua guides us and shows us its possibilities. One day it started speaking softly: "I am a rhizomatic woman who connects and supports, who sustains and nurtures. I am the root of the mangrove that, like a giant arm, embraces. We are three points of support to reside. In the knot, I have strength and life. In the humidity, I soften and adjust. I am the song of the lap, the mantle where you fall. I am a network that ties and helps, that supports knots and words gestures. The quick movement of the fingers allows me to feel the phalanges pulsate. Their phalanges are like my knots. I contort and force them to bend. I articulate, injure, and fragment myself. I am skilled and want to use the delicacy that exists within me alongside the roughness that is my salvation. I endure through the fibrous network and respond like an oracle, with possibilities and ramifications. Don't be afraid of me; I am like a spider that accompanies, hairy and fragile. They fill themselves with me, but they don't see it. Then it said softly: "Breathe quickly; they're going to demolish the garden!"
Carolina Cerón
