The catalogue for this exhibition is important because it includes three critical reviews of the project by Rosario López that focus on the idea of “structure” (that involves the concepts of “time,” “space,” and “form”) and the act of insufflating (the project’s underlying theme). The essays included here are as follows, in order of appearance: “Estructuras blandas: ¿En qué pensamos cuando hablamos de estructuras?” [Soft Structures: What Do We Mean When We Speak of Structures?] by Juan Mejía Mosquera; “Ut Infra: resonancia” [Ut Infra: Resonance] by Felipe Cortés Salinas; and “Sobre el hecho de insuflar” [On the Process of Insufflating] by María Iovino.
Insufflare (2006–7) was a research project jointly undertaken by the critic and researcher María Iovino (b. 1962), the philosopher Juan Fernando Mejía Mosquera, and the artist Rosario López. The conversation between these three arose from an agreement to view sculptural space and its characteristics from the perspective of “a place”—in this case the landscape—in which movement in the configuration of the form would have a direct impact. In this case, form was understood as a non-static representative, photographable element that was in a constant state of change.
What López set out to achieve with Insufflare “involved understanding landscape as a container of natural forces that when considered in relation to a three-dimensional object like a sheet of aluminum, create a web of relationships that affect its structure and, therefore, its limits.” López’s installations in a variety of situations were photographed from different angles in an attempt to record how the sheet was affected by the wind (movement). These photographs were presented at Rosario López’s exhibition at the Galería Casas Riegner (2007).
Rosario López is an artist, teacher, and researcher. She became interested in understanding space as a result of her experiments with landscape, sculpture, and photography, all of which are part of her art projects and are linked to her research inspired by the philosophical ideas of Gilles Deleuze in the case of Insufflare, as well as other contemporary authors such as Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Rosalind Krauss, and Yve-Alain Bois. Text plays an important role in López’s work; it is used to explain the material expression of her ideas and the meanings of the expressive elements included in each of her pieces.