Ana Esteve Llorens

Concepts such as nomadism and sedentariness have an intimate link with space, be it natural, transformed or built. One is no longer a nomad as one used to be a traveller. Both concepts represent ways of understanding life that today can barely be simulated, even by covering one's eyes and ears to avoid seeing and hearing the hum of the things happening, vertiginously, around us. Working with sculpture cannot be the same as it was to travel as a traveler or a nomad. However, it seems that space may well be the same distressed and dispersed concept that can be bounded and manipulated, designed and planned, and never owned. Because it is really space which places us and gives us the measure of things. To work with space is also to extensively think about time, that elusive concept that marks our journeys and our stays...