Marta Sánchez Marco
Silence and metamorphosis in “El herbario imperfecto” by Marta Sánchez Marco
9th June to 30th July 2022
SILENCE AND METAMORPHOSIS in "El Herbario Imperfecto" (The Imperfect Herbarium) by Marta Sánchez Marco
Like Zen verses, Marta Sánchez Marco's pieces place in the foreground that which disappears from our walk if we are not "awake": the minimal, the transitory, the incomplete, the fleeting... Hence, in Francisco Loscos y Bernal's treatise: Serie imperfecta de las plantas aragonesas espontáneas (Imperfect series of spontaneous Aragonese plants [1867]), Marta founds a reflection of her feelings towards nature, because she too renounces to encompass the infinite mosaic of parts that constitutes life.
The arrangement possesses this double quality: introspective (meditative) and critical (of environmental deterioration). It is an open route that invites visitors to take a silent, non-hierarchical stroll among the elements on display, like a horizontal score. Visitors can let themselves be carried away by their own motivations and intuitions, just as they would do when visiting a historical museum or on a country walk.
Susana Blas