{"id":29089,"date":"2025-06-18T20:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T02:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/?post_type=eventos&#038;p=29089"},"modified":"2025-06-18T20:08:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T02:08:57","slug":"maria-svarova-surface","status":"publish","type":"eventos","link":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/eventos\/maria-svarova-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Svarbova: Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sidebar clearwithin animate-from-top\">\n<div class=\"divider\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Saenger Galer\u00eda presents the first solo exhibition in Mexico by renowned Slovak artist Maria Svarbova, titled \u201cSurface.\u201d Hosted in the Main Hall, this exhibition brings together a special selection of photographs from five series created between 2014 and 2024, all centered around two of the most iconic topics in her career: swimming pools and artistic swimming.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"prose content_module clearwithin\">\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Svarbova\u2019s photography is, for the most part, held in a very specific context\u2014her native Slovakia. Her childhood was deeply shaped by Soviet-era buildings in the Brutalist style, constructed before the fall of the Berlin Wall. However, it wasn\u2019t until 2014, when she rediscovered the swimming pool of a public high school, that she recognized the timeless potential of these spaces. Fascinated by the site\u2019s well-preserved condition despite having been closed for a long time, she decided to photograph not only pools in Slovakia but also in other parts of the world over the following ten years.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the use of symmetry, which is a key element in her work, Maria incorporates other visual resources into her work, such as tension, rhythm, and movement. However, the most important and powerful element in Svarbova\u2019s work is time. On this subject, the artist says in an interview: \u201cIt makes me sad to think about time, to see how it never stops. Every time I return home, I see that my parents have aged, and that terrifies me. Photography is my way of using time, through it, I can stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under this context, Svarbova\u2019s photography is both an effective way to express the plasticity of the water\u2019s surface in swimming pools\u2014where \u201cthe only thing swimmers can do is see their own reflection in the perfect mirror of the pool\u2019s water\u201d\u2014and a place where time stands still. Maria continues: \u201cLately, I use many clocks in my work. Clocks measure time, but photography stops it, so time no longer moves forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For this exhibition, Maria Svarbova\u2019s debut exhibition in Mexico, Surface: timelessness stands out as the guiding principle of her photographic practice. timelessness: the quality of that which remains unchanged over the years, that which endures even if the walls of empires collapse, and in the midst of which the artistic act\u2014particularly photography\u2014is an act of resistance against the passage of time. Maria Svarbova\u2019s work thus aims to fix in the memory of the viewer and herself moments that are lost, so that they may remain, like reflections on the surface of the water in any swimming pool around the world, at all times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Manuel Tuda<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saenger Galer\u00eda presents the first solo exhibition in Mexico by renowned Slovak artist Maria Svarbova, titled \u201cSurface.\u201d Hosted in the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29090,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"featured_event":"","duracion_evento":""},"etiquetas-de-evento":[506],"ubicacion-de-evento":[479,478],"categoria-de-evento":[1628,1631],"class_list":["post-29089","eventos","type-eventos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","etiquetas-de-evento-artes-visuales","ubicacion-de-evento-cdmx","ubicacion-de-evento-mexico","categoria-de-evento-exposicion","categoria-de-evento-galeria-exposicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/29089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eventos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"etiquetas-de-evento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiquetas-de-evento?post=29089"},{"taxonomy":"ubicacion-de-evento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ubicacion-de-evento?post=29089"},{"taxonomy":"categoria-de-evento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria-de-evento?post=29089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}