Me, You, In Between
For an Entanglement in Nonlocality

During this month-long residency, Laura Turón — a binational artist (Mexico–USA) — focused on creating works commissioned to manifest plastic, conceptual, and spatial possibilities that move beyond binary reality. To do so, she worked with the procedural principles of line, gesture, repetition, dissipation, space, and elaborate material construction, as well as juxtaposition and color.

First, following the methodology she has developed in previous drawing works — in which she outlines a sign that expresses the core concept of the piece and then, repeatedly, as a mantra, enunciating the words that shaped it, draws the sign in pencil on paper — she worked on the sign:

ME, YOU INBETWEEN.
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After saturating the paper with the sign/mantra, she rubs pieces of adhesive tape over it in order to lift the graphite and reposition it elsewhere. In this way, she deconstructs the drawing to create space between gesture, line, matter, and surface, allowing the energy that animated the matter (drawing on paper) to be released — later making it visible within an installation.

The drawing is not a simple representation, but a seismograph of the spirit. The psychic gesture manifests in the line as a discharge of energy in which pulse, pressure, and speed function as a direct language of the psyche. At this point, the line ceases to be a contour and becomes the expression of process — and in doing so, an honest record of time, space, and physical effort that reveals the psycho-bio-biography of Laura’s creation.

The act of marking is the result of a material and emotional transfer; it is the moment when Laura’s intention collides with the resistance of the surface, leaving a trace that captures the present. Yet this mark is neither eternal nor static. As an echo of a movement that has already occurred, it contains within itself the nature of the ephemeral, opening the possibility of pursuing a quantum entanglement with nonlocality — dislocating the binary anchoring of drawing on paper, of the fixed and the mobile, of light and darkness, of the permanence of graphite toward the inevitable fading of the image.

This cycle of creation and erosion suggests that drawing is as much an act of loss as of discovery. Between the transfer of internal impulse and the final dissolution of form, the work inhabits an intermediate space: the trace of a presence that, in attempting to fix itself on paper, begins to blur into memory, moving us from fixed ideas toward a space yet to be created.

Laura also unsettles the convention of memory/image of me and the other — now in painterly expression. In the works where the words ME, YOU INBETWEEN are superimposed, what she did in drawing — placing, removing, dissolving — becomes almost inverted and condensed. By removing space and depth, and blurring the identity of each word — since they overlap — she metaphorically materializes the quantum phenomenon of entangled particles: the words share a single state, such that measuring one individual meaning (person) instantaneously affects the other, suppressing distance and giving way to nonlocality, evoking in lak’ech (I am another you / you are another me).

Olga Margarita Dávila
Chief Curator

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