Una Tarde en el Futuro | Late Evening in the Future

Museo Artes Visuales | 20 May - 17 August 2019
African art, colonialism, surrealist poetics, the strategies of montage and Nicolás Franco's previous work are referred to in this work, the title of which only postpones its comprehension. Lake, voice, greyhound, glass, black, tear, crow, sun, shelter, hut, knife, heart. These are some of the words that the artist regularly arranges on reproductions of the pages of the book "The Universe of Forms, Black Africa" by Michel Leiris and Jacqueline Delance.

In each painting, the words are spread out from one margin to the other and are written in red in a dry wood typeface; their arrangement in the polyptych also obeys a particular distributive logic. The words, then, are partially freed from "inspiration" and instead end up governed by a law, whose imperative, however, is as arbitrary and random as the most feverish poetic language.