What makes the fall of a tree in the middle of the forest—or a rock slide on a mountain—noticeable? Is it the noise it produces, or the presence of someone witnessing the collapse?
N.A.S.A.L., within the neutrality of its walls, hosts Gwladys Alonzo’s latest exhibition. Works of varying resolution, style, and size that share that suspension of what seems poised to collapse—the anticipation of a collision that defies certain laws of physics— and stands in contrast to the disintegration and recomposition of bodies within a particular logic, in which vertigo—and, if you will, anguish— does not disappear. Matter and emptiness, lightness and gravity, are part of the paradoxes Alonzo presents in a body of work that, in a forceful and at times enigmatic way, establishes deep and subtle connections amid the turmoil.