“Stratified Memory” is the title of the project presented by the Ángeles Baños Gallery at ArcoMadrid25. The selected artists, Abel Jaramillo, Celia González, and Susanne S.D. Themlitz, question our social and cultural context with their work, adopting elements of our immediate natural environment as tools. Through a geobiological perspective, we are invited to imagine futures from sediment, to rethink history in a stratified manner, and ultimately to relativize the present. Using memory as an inherited tradition, but also as a strategic means to fabricate the future.
In each of the works, there is a connection to specific places close to the artist, proposing parallels with society by looking back at small events, at what happens in silence, and at the microhistories that reflect back to us, placing us in a different scale.