Helena Almeida: 'Seduzir' [To Seduce, 2002] (detail)

Collection

Indistintamente [Interchangeably]

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SALOMÉ CUESTA

Indistintamente [Interchangeably]

  • 1990
  • Polyester resin & fibreglass
  • 198,5 x 100 x 22 cm
  • Cat. E_93
  • Acquired in 1992
By:
Isabel Tejeda

Salomé Cuesta's output has evolved towards the dematerialisation of objects and the reduction of their physical nature to mere light. But the work held in the Banco de España Collection dates from the 1990s, at the beginning of her career. Indeed, it was shown in her first solo exhibition. At that time the structure of much of her sculpture was based precisely on materials, though there were already hints of the fascination for transparency and translucent objects that she subsequently developed together with a group of colleagues at the Fine Arts Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Valencia in the early 1990s.

Interchangeably (1990) shows a subtle geometry. It is a cryptic piece which plays at being a frame with no picture, and which seeks to delimit, enclose or imprison space on three sides, but ultimately shows that this cannot be done, via an aporia that emerges from the bottom of the work in acceptance of its infinite nature. The piece resolves itself by blending metaphorically into its setting so that each becomes the other. A flat resin surface made to look like moulding stands face to face with the corporeality of the spectator, making us aware of our dimensions in space.

Isabel Tejeda

 
By:
Isabel Tejeda
Salomé Cuesta
València 1964

Salomé Cuesta graduated in Fine Arts from the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia, part of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, in 1989. She subsequently obtained a PhD from the same university and currently teaches there.

Her core concern in her output as an artist is the nature of space and how it is constructed and occupied. She explores this mainly through three-dimensional works. Unlike traditional sculpture, which uses noble materials to produce works which are physically dense or focussed on matter, she works with media and materials that can be seen as non-physical in nature. She uses mirrors and projections, and has conducted significant investigations into the creative and conceptual capabilities of light. Based on 'level zero' sculpture, Salomé Cuesta explores the locations in which her works stand, and she does so not through the elements that define and delimit them but by working with the lightness of light, shade and darkness.

Her works have been shown at numerous venues, including the Exhibition Hall of the University of Valencia (1990), the Antoni Estrany-de la Mota Gallery (Barcelona, 1992), the Juana Mordó Gallery (Madrid, 1992, 1993), the Helga de Alvear Gallery (Madrid, 1996), the Salvador Díaz Gallery (Madrid, 2000), the Párraga Centre (Murcia, 2006) and the Helga de Alvear Foundation Visual Arts Centre (Cáceres, 2015).

Isabel Tejeda

 
«Interchangeably: real space, pure void», Universitat de València (València, 1990). «Interferenzen VI. Raumdeutung», Palais Liechtenstein (Viena, 1992).
Francisco Jarauta Salomé Cuesta. Indistintamente: espacio real, puro vacío, València, Universitat de València Servei d’Extensió Universitària, 1990. Vv.Aa. Colección Banco de España. Catálogo razonado, Madrid, Banco de España, 2019, vol. 2.