La Anatomía del Tiempo series (Verbos de Piedra II)

“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 eclipse in the mystery.”

Jorge Villacorta-Chávez Curator

Triggered by impossible questions, Gihan Tubbeh's works continue to explore time and the transformation of matter into earths’ language. What is the territory and how is it defined? There is a struggle between the map and the territory; the map is a guide constructed by calculation and mathematics, but it poses something very different from the territory.

"Is it not the territory, the unnamable, the certainty itself, the chance of time, something precisely unattainable?", she asks. Her works attempt to capture the way time inscribes on the territory, both naturally and provoked my humanity.

Tubbeh has been collecting stones from diverse locations across continents and have recorded its geological coordinates. The track and movements I make are also recorded and measured, becoming cartographic drawings.

This is a mimetic gesture of what nature does through time, in perfect precision; however, and in contrast with nature’s own timing, Tubbeh's act of relocating each stone out of place interprets human’s intervention and imprecision in this world. The act of collecting, relocating and tracing of each stone in their different positions, builds a grid of engravings as a constellation. The works aim to call for awareness, and reflect on humanity’s mass behavior: extraction, reproduction, consumption and degradation of nature’s resources.

Gihan's project encourages to take into reflection the flux and fluidity of life, the natural phenomena of time, its cycle of creation and destruction, and how depredating human imprecision impacts on earth’s natural perfect cycle.

Through the combination of photography, video, sound recordings, drawing, and installation, she create arrangements based in the ideas of repetition, pattern, rhythm, and visual noise.