Phylogeny (2016)

What distances do memories travel to disseminate their forms and meanings? Like the hairs of an animal that shakes its growing mane from side to side: such are the vicissitudes of time.

In Filogenia , Sebastián Boesmi's drawing threads circulate across a broad spectrum of temporalities. Despite this, their meandering paths open the possibility of exploring a familiar realm of images that gradually became more complex or consolidated, at their own pace, perhaps immeasurable. Among these threads, formal lineages and histories of meaning become visible, holding some secrets, as well as the occasional line that crosses the line, marking the beginning of a variation introduced into the artist's body of work.

Condensing these alternating times into a single space opens tunnels, perhaps capable of communicating the disparate energies of a personal history and sensibility, imprinted with the pulse of a hand upon a seminal ocean. It allows us to recognize patterns and motifs that have accompanied Boesmi throughout his series, and the shifts in frequency, resulting from the artist's experience of diverse environments as well as from his internal dynamics. Tense distances are established between the individual pieces and a higher realm to which they belong; these moments of alternation, which conjure a rebellious schism, impose a divide in a visual genetic bank.

Thus, Boesmi's cosmogony, which is expressed as a reproduction of visual impulses in the atmosphere – with a marked rhythmic imprint – allows us to read the oscillations that unfold not only as provisional veils of uncertainty, but as a rebellion that puts a stability of time in crisis.