Carlos Suárez

Absolutely impeccable is the installation Carlos Suárez presents at Galería Adriana Suárez. Absolutely impeccable are the pieces that make it up: the photographs of houses of a typology so simple that any of us has it in mind, and the small models of that same form. Absolutely clear is the intervention, resolved by lifting part of the room’s floor and having it held up by these small constructions — the kind of evidence we all have before our eyes but that only artists like Carlos Suárez are able to analyse and lay bare.

Through a simple gesture, the artist gives shape to a narrative full of reflections on a reality as raw as it is worrying, in which our society is currently caught up: the sustainability of a system, the property bubble, the contradiction of what should support what, the world turned upside down, the need for a roof over our heads.

The two photographs have a strange beauty; carefully composed, they would work as stand-alone pieces and lose nothing of their meaning. Exactly the same is true of the small models wedged between the parquet boards. It is a pity the space is so limited; the proposal would have deserved to fill the whole exhibition space.

The whole thus has the capacity to amplify meanings, to underline the discourse and the personal stance — the latter an essential aspect of current artistic practices which, in my view, cannot remain isolated and detached from what is happening, absorbed in themselves.

Ajimez Arte 20-11-2011