Jerónimo Elespe: Dos sonidos, cuatro noches

Dos sonidos, cuatro noches, in continuity with the rest of the work of Jerónimo Elespe (Madrid, 1975), gives rise to oblique approaches and promotes indeterminate, almost dreamlike interpretations from images that appear as veils that conceal other realities. His works are formed by multiple layers of materials that have been added, removed, diluted, or covered, partially or totally by others. Thus, palimpsests are created in which narratives persist whose sources and references, regardless of their origin, are indistinctly part of the artist’s intimate experience and from where the personal and subjective resists the collective as the dominant structure. Elespe’s works are not vehicles for arriving at a common understanding or precise meanings, but organisms of visual resonances that expand from the hermetic.

 

The emphasis on process, materiality, and on the different visual languages used, allows the artist to continuously search for open-ended results, while suggesting his indifference towards a final outcome. In this sense, Elespe’s proposal acquires a philosophical dimension regarding the non-linearity of time and the complexity of life experience through semi-transparent, fluctuating and hypnotic surfaces, which are seductive in the sense that one can only try to decipher what is not absolute.

 

“all done unsaid

retell”

(Fragment of the poem PSS, by Samuel Beckett)