From 02 de October 2024 al 16 de February del 2025
Developed over the past year, a period in which the artist has faced several health challenges, including a battle against cancer, Nada puede duplicarse realmente is an exhibition that revolves around these struggles, the passage of time, the fragility of the human body, and the finitude of life, both human and more-than-human. Composed entirely of new work, the exhibition is the product of the artist’s time spent in clinics, doctor’s offices, and places associated with illness, as well as reflections on life and death, love and loss, struggle and hope.
The dead birds that her dog Aurelio brings her as a gift, the flowers that adorn her nightstand and that with the passing of days lose their freshness, medical and hospital scenes and instruments, and roses she cultivates and with which she records the passing of days, are a reminder that our time in this world is brief and that the best way to honor it is to live without fear. In these images, references to her family, daily life, her pets, and small gestures that give meaning to the days merge together. A subtle meditation on a topic still considered taboo in Western culture, this body of work shows the deterioration or fragility of different forms of life not as a dramatic event but as just another moment in the experience of being alive.
The exhibition, whose title inevitably also references the multiple nature of printmaking and the variations that, beyond the idea of repetition, characterize each impression from the plate, confirms her skill as a printmaker while opening new lines of exploration and experimentation. In addition to drypoint printmaking, recurring in Restrepo’s work, the artist plays with transfer and supports such as tarlatan (the fabric used to wipe printing plates) and handmade paper, to speak of her own present and that of printmaking, because as Socrates said, what is terrible is not death but thinking that death is something terrible.
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