It was Ilya Kabakov who, in a conversation with Boris Groys - back in the nineties - affirmed that an installation approached a sphere in which we could understand that we were on a theatre stage.
But this was transformed into a new type of theatre, which resembles life in a different way. A strange piece unfolds in front of us. The artist thought it very appropriate in this context to use the terminology of the surrealists: the dream, the night, the appearance, the strange, all this hovers over the space of an installation. As Kabakov would say ‘an installation causes improbable reverie states’. And this reverie improbability is the premise of the project ‘El acto de disecar: segunda escena’, whose first scene took place in the space of Galeria Yusto/Giner in Marbella.
Victoria Maldonado's sculptures are presented to us as a vestige of a bygone time. A species dissected in porcelain and textile in which we doubt if its past time was better than its present. Its strangeness invites us to inquire about her own existence and at that moment the words of the artist herself resonate with our memory: ‘Art is an excuse to leave a trace’. Placing a special emphasis on the concept of double temporality of the artist, which is none other than that of leaving a vital vestige in the passing of her days faced with the vestige that emerged in the studio: the sculpture.
An approach that arises from the fear inherited from Foucault, in which the philosopher affirms:
‘My body is the place to which I am condemned without recourse’. That is why Victoria creates an organ, skin, meat, fold ... even if it is to dissect it.