Shipwreck Studies

‘Shipwreck Studies’ is a collection of objects brought from my home island in Menorca that used to belong to my great-grandfather’s ship. Craftsman and a man of anarchist beliefs, his last project was the building of a 26 meters long vessel with reclaimed materials from the sea that was to remain moored in the middle of a barren field. Unexpectedly a provoked fire destroyed it. Twenty-five years on I came back to the same plot of land and gathered few of the remains of materials and objects I could find of his little utopia and travelled with them to my studio in London.

A voice comes to one in the dark Imagine. S. Beckett 'With this sentence, Erola Arcalís invites the viewer to an intimate space. We enter into a cave with only a few references to Greek mythology as a guide. The words “Lethe” and “Aletheia” in Greek translate as “to forget, to conceal” and “to remember, to reveal”, respectively; but it refers also to truth and its negation, untruth. Abstract images coexist with figurative ones, playing with scale and subject. A fragmented still life, an orphaned trace, a singled stalagmite; constitute different voices of memories.' ‍