Dates
3 March to 20 April 2026
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On Tuesday, March 3rd at 12:00 pm, Emiliana Pérez and Fulvio Gonella will present this collaborative project, which proposes a joint investigation into the invisible burden of the everyday. It's not about representing weariness, apathy, or irrationality, but about giving it form, atmosphere, and language.

The project stems from a simple, psychological and political observation: living today demands bearing a constant weight —emotional, labor, social— that permeates both bodies and production systems, words and materials.

Emiliana Pérez's work is a multidisciplinary project that incorporates various disciplines: photography, collage, installation, and video art. Among the materials used, paraffin stands out as a substance that endures through changes of state; here, it serves as a physical metaphor for contemporary labor. Each block, each layer, each imprint records the pressure, heat, and accumulated effort of daily life. Her practice speaks of active resistance, not from rigidity, but from adaptation: the capacity to solidify again after each transformation.

Meanwhile, Fulvio Gonella confronts the weight of the present through an aesthetic of semantic collapse. His work doesn't merely collect testimonies, but rather intervenes in the open wound of contemporary discourse: corporate slogans, political promises, and existential angst collide on the black canvas, emulating the blank screen or blackboard of a failed system. Gonella practices an enlightened vandalism where language is stripped of its communicative function to reveal itself as noise, irony, and pronouncement, exposing the fragility of the narratives—success, identity, progress—that supposedly sustain our daily burden.

Emiliana Pérez approaches the portrait of 21st-century individuals from a psychological perspective, stimulating reflection on how we see, interpret, and give meaning to images, relating to psychological studies of visual perception and cognition.

Fulvio Gonella dissects the present through semantic saturation: fragments of corporate and urban rhetoric collide to reveal the void. His interventions are not passive traces, but visual short circuits of a society that produces ideological waste faster than it produces real goods.

If Pérez's work retains the warmth of the body, Gonella's retains the dissonance of the voice.

"The Weight of the Present" does not seek to represent the crisis of our time, but rather to inhabit it with dignity. The works do not speak of collapse, but of persistence; not of an end, but of everyday resistance. The project proposes a dialogue between the material that bears and the language that remembers, between warmth and silence, between that which works and that which is written.

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  • Postal address Archivo Histórico Provincial de Ávila - Pza. Concepción Arenal, s/n. municipality of Ávila . NaN. Ávila