“’The line I draw is eternal’ it starts with the first drawing I did in kindergarten and ends with the drawing I did yesterday in my diary”, says the artist Lila Jamieson about his work, a plastic proposal that is not reduced to canvas and that expands in all directions and up to all the senses of its lifetime.
With his most recent exhibition, carried out with the support and curatorship of Talia Barredo of the Lichen Art Agencythe House of the Hill Museum Torreón, Coahuila becomes the temple that houses the nature, women, their families and timethrough the gigantic canvases that the artist has painted over the last two years.
“We have been working with this exhibition for two years, so first a part was made that was exhibited in the besana [en 2021], but we felt that it was very shrunken, that it did not have this fluidity that we had thought, so in the space of the Casa del Cerro Museum, which is triple the size of La Besana, it was already possible to set up perfectly with its air in each space, ”he explained in an interview with VANGUARD.
“We plan it as a temple, you enter and it is the meditative part, with canvases of the cosmos, sunrise, sunset, landscapes. Then there are the offerings, the garden, nature and the last part is the goddesses, these women who are in everyday spaces and dealing with storms and natural phenomena,” she added.
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The sample is made up for the most part by frameless paintings, hung like banners or curtains that reveal their front and back, inviting the viewer to explore the proposal in a more thorough way, as well as delve into the issues raised by the artist.
That eternal line of which he speaks in the title of the series is not reduced to matter, but also to its “veins” and the blood that runs through them, to the genealogy and heritage of the women in his family.
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Thus we find pieces like “Jardín”, which stems from the family taste for build upto be done, so that he presents us with a clothesline/house from which more banners hang and shows plants in the process of drying and others growing, alluding to the same cycle of life.
In other works, titled “Apocalypse, when everything collapses”, the woman is at peace and relaxed, even when behind her back the world is in the midst of catastrophe. Based on texts from the North American Buddhist Pema Chödrönfrom the United States, who proposes calm in the midst of chaos so as not to contribute to it.
Everything, moreover, he did it in the midst of a physical impediment, a reaction in his hands that made his work difficult, for which he had to find alternatives, such as the use of pigmentation with fabric dyes on the canvases and extensions in his brushes, what impacted his work.
“On the day of the inauguration, the poem ‘Women and Goddesses’ by Carol Cervantesthere was a white tulle, which we all signify with the bride, but then she entangles it, modifying it, transmuting it, making mist, mist and mist and then she grabs it, makes it a kind of cloud that takes her through all the pieces and among the people who were at the inauguration and place it on a piece that is made of rain, then it becomes cloud and rain”, he added about the didactics of the exhibition, “we wanted to highlight all these processes that take place before, during and after the exposure.
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In addition to this, “The line that I draw is eternal” also allowed him to return to his native Keepfrom which he left for Saltillo at the age of 21 to study at the UAdeC School of Plastic Arts and has not returned for two decades.
“Returning to Torreón after 20 years it was a wonderful thing It was a trip to nostalgia, because I slept at my grandmother’s house, who hadn’t slept there since I was a child, I saw family, friends I hadn’t seen since 1997,” she said.
The exhibition will be open at the House of the Hill Museum in Torreón until February 26.
