Trémula. Javi Cruz
A certain agility in gathering political and social events and endowing them with symbolic power, and a certain care in preserving their complexity; an organic and easy-going disciplinary fluidity, situating the body and the voice, but also writing; an extraordinary ability to calm the narrative anxieties that we collectively suffer from in postmodernity, always from the viewpoint of an overwhelming subjectivity that, at the same time, is capable of becoming more than the sum of its parts, reaching a place of collective memory.
9 Trémula / Javi Cruz
85 Reivaj Zurc / Manuel Segade & Tania Pardo
98 Árboles de nuestra vida / Miriam Martín
112 Lázaro / Leticia Ybarra
121 Temperatura de un cuerpo caído / Carolina Sisabel
136 Terra preta / Fernando Gandasegui
152 Claro verde persiana / Jorge Anguita Mirón
337 Documentación / Jorge Anguita Mirón
Trémula is an exhibition by the artist Javi Cruz (Madrid, 1985). It is also the story of a populus tremula—the scientific name for the tree commonly called trembling aspen– which was planted in the 1980s beside the building where he grew up and still lives today in the district of San Blas and was chopped down last year because of a disease. The night when it was felled, Javier took around 500 kg of it up to his apartment and a few days later, with the help of his friends Jacobo and Lorenzo, he loaded the biggest truck he was able to drive with more.