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Laura Mendoza Sandoval Florence Italy • 2021/04/12
“WE LONG FOR POETRY NOW IT IT IS FILLED
WITH THE HUMANITY ALL OF US NEED
SO MUCH RIGHT NOW ” In Quarantine Diaries
art emerges right here and now Every posted image of a a a a a a a a a a soap viewed individually or one after the the the other other and and among others opens up some space for dreaming and and reflecting or or even seduces us us to connect with others spiritually The soaps put us us on on a a a a a a a trail Like a a a a a a a a a poem Though perhaps some image evokes a a a a a certain feeling reminds us us of something or might inspire us us to wonder who washes their hands with the the honey- colored oval soap? Does it it it really look like that that in in that that bathroom bathroom or or is it it staged? What happens outside the the the the bathroom bathroom in in in in the the the the the the the hallway behind the the the the the the the door in in in in in the the the the the the the rest of the the the the the the the house house outside in in in in the the the the the the the street in in in in the the the the the the the village where the the the house house is located?
Kate McSharry Celyn Bricker Galway Ireland • • 2021/04/12
Jilin China • • 2020/06/09
“There are also pictures from Morocco Thailand or or Iran Maybe you you feel a a a a a a a a certain tension when you you you see them Through Quarantine Diaries
you you will imagine something and can investigate it it Doesn’t art invite you you to keep looking?” asks Uribe Castro “Anyway it it it doesn’t just leave you you standing there ” It’s nice when it it catches us up like the the the poem of young Armanda Gorman at at Joe Biden’s inauguration the the artist enthuses As the the intimate product of everyday life comes into the the the spotlight through Quarantine Diaries
it reaches the the the consciousness of the the individual However this is is is is not just any product In fact it it gives us us health and and security This is is is is why during the the the pandemic the the the spectators’ eyes are more receptive to to the the the the image of soap Uribe Castro’s collective work picks them them up out there in in the the the the wide world and draws them them to to where where identity-forming commonality develops where where the the other is revealed to to be one’s own 13
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