Creation of a ritual of passage - NADIA COHEN IMACH

Creation of a ritual of passage

Nadia Cohen Imach Curator: Cecilia Quinteros Macció July 8 to August 27, 2021 There are processes that begin with certainties and that, in the encounter with life itself, branch out to create new meanings. Something similar emerges from the work of Nadia Cohen Imach, with the tension between what could be called dreamlike acts and a kind of dialectic in which certain images can guide us toward meanings that we cannot fully define or understand. The works stem from this relationship with the symbolic, conscious and inherited by the artist, which disrupts the current world in the scientific-spiritual dichotomy and the relationship of woman, her body, motherhood, and societal mandates. And in her artistic practice, she activates new ways of interpreting what appeared to be complete, blurring the boundaries of what has an apparently closed meaning, to open the possibility for it to have another. In this new perspective, sparked by deep ties to her own family origins, beliefs seem to vanish, so that “nothing means anything” until it signifies something more. The space of intimacy expands as a catharsis of ideas: the conceiving—the non-conceiving, the sexual, the gynecological, the invasive, the incorporated, the carnal, the organic, the hard, the soft, the methodical, the impulsive, the chosen, the denied, the imposed. Certainties are distorted, shifting from one state to another; an alchemy occurs that expands the ancestrally prefabricated and subjective field, and blurred action transforms into a nourishing, mutable, and creative ritual. This project proposes the stripping away of meanings to invite us to reformulate our own system of thought and beliefs, to observe the labels placed on the world, see where they come from, and choose a new way of perceiving and being perceived. Getting rid of what does not belong to us is the first step toward freedom. Cecilia Quinteros Macció