'Lapse'

Julia Puyo's exhibition is a journey that, rather than dealing with Covid as a period that begins and ends, deals with the pandemic as a symptom of a systemic error.

It begins with Lapsus Temporis , which are two parallel images separated by a period of one hundred years. A lifetime for María Branyas, but very little time in geohistorical terms.

Julia's artistic strategy of accumulating and relating existing images led to the creation of this pairing of two snapshots, separated by time, united by the pandemic. Both reflect bodies, more crowded in one, more orderly in the other. Sick bodies lined up in the first image, healthy bodies correctly squared in the other, like merchandise in the warehouse of a distribution center. Health is logistics. Bodies are mass converted into data, disputed between the public and private systems. The points of view and escape from the two images are so similar that they produce a temporal estrangement that further shortens the historical distance between one and the other. And it seems that past and present events have an overly recurrent and parallel logic, as if history repeats itself as a farce. Or even as a caricature.