"A stone contains the memory of the Universe."
Pinuccio Sciola
Verbos de Piedra
“...The temporal dimension is sometimes unpredictable and sometimes unattainable. In the verbs of Tubbeh inhabits the mutability of matter under the processes that generates or transforms it.
The stone of her verbs is dense, translucent, elastic and proteic, rough and deliquescent, married to ice, fire and magnetic atmospheres. The human horizon does not detach from it, and although it disappears from the imaginary of the daily urban routine, it is one of the fertile anchors of the imagination and of the archetypal forms that hang in it.
It is from the imagination pregnant by this mystery, that the ancient myths that ignited and illuminated minds were born. From the orality of the initial narratives, to the writing in all its forms, the myths keep alive the multiple imaginary languages of matter.
Verbos de Piedra resembles a poetic archeology, which does not aspire to reach the seal of the conclusive. It looks for hidden signs and rhythms in the visible world. In these images, as well as in poetry, the alchemy of art captures echoes of something immeasurably larger than our footprints in the landscape. The rumor of an indecipherable codified language. A secret writing that sometimes allows harmonies to emerge that are eclipsed in the mystery.”
Jorge Villacorta Chavez, curator
With Verbos de Piedra, Gihan Tubbeh's work consolidates its lyrical character.
As Gihan points out, "...the word 'verb' alludes to something in movement, in constant mutation, while 'stone', apparently, is something that is always still. This exhibition shows that this is not always the case. Antagonisms coexist within nature".
