País extraño IV  
Elián Stolarsky  

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19 octubre - 24 noviembre, 2023


-I can see that picture of what we were at an earlier stage may not be
recognisable and cannot, certainly, be pleasing to contemplate in later life.
But we must not repudiate it, for it is a proof that we have really lived… -

Marcel Proust


Presentamos la primera exposición individual en el Chico de Elián Stolarsky (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1990), País extraño IV.

La obra de Elian Stolarsky nos enfrenta a un pasado abstracto, tenebrosamente familiar. Fragmento por fragmento, acercándonos y alejándonos, se sobreponen y encajan alusiones a territorios y cuerpos extraños. Los gestos de la artista, que trazan línea por línea las fotos del artista Robert Cappa, tomadas para documentar la guerra Civil Española, funcionan como ladrillos que componen una imagen fuera de nuestro alcance. Las telas revelan sus costuras como cicatrices en las que reconocemos movimientos, posturas, heridas, caras y cuerpos que documentan una violencia heredada y nos interpelan a construir un tejido de recuerdos donde imágenes del pasado, presente y futuro pueden ser intercambiadas.

Adriana F. Pauly


Este primer proyecto individual con Elián Stolarsky surge después de su inclusión en la segunda edición de nuestra exposición de graduados Adentro/Afuera. El primer acercamiento al trabajo de Elián lo hacemos (o nos sucede) desde lo emocional para después encontrarnos con las aristas sociales y políticas. La obra de Elián entraña una transformación constante que va de lo personal a lo sociológico; su práctica no tiene como punto de partida la postura política, más bien aborda una historia familiar y propia desde lo que significa ser un extranjero perenne, acogiendo y confrontando lo político que este abordaje pueda suscitar.

October 19 - November 24, 2023

-I can see that picture of what we were at an earlier stage may not be
recognisable and cannot, certainly, be pleasing to contemplate in later life.
But we must not repudiate it, for it is a proof that we have really lived… -

Marcel Proust


We present the first individual exhibition at el Chico of Elián Stolarsky (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1990), País extraño IV (Foreign country IV).

Elian Stolarsky's work confronts us with an abstract and darkly familiar past. Fragment by fragment, moving closer and further away, allusions to foreign territories and bodies overlap and fit together. Tracing line by line the Spanish Civil War’s photographs by the artist Robert Cappa, the artist's gestures function as bricks composing an image beyond our reach. The cloths reveal their seams as scars in which we recognize movements, postures, wounds, faces and bodies documenting  an inherited violence, challenging to build a fabric of memories where images of our past, present and future can be exchanged.

Adriana F. Pauly


This first individual exhibition by Elián Stolarsky comes after her inclusion in the second edition of our graduates’ exhibition Adentro/Afuera. Our approach to Elián's work is emotional, but we find its social and political aspects afterward. Her work comes with a constant transformation that goes from the personal to the sociological; her practice does not have a political stance as a starting point, instead, it addresses a family and own history of what it means to be a perennial foreigner, welcoming and confronting the politics that this approach may raise.