TIENTO: A MISTY MEADOW BETWEEN LAGOONS

Thursday, 10 July 2025, 19:00. Presentation with the Tiento II group at the conclusion of their residency in Bulegoa z/b.

TIENTO: A MISTY MEADOW BETWEEN LAGOONS
Visible at the bottom of the porcelain plate is a hand intercepting another hand, and some feet standing on what appears to be a tulip.
The rest of the drawing is covered by the 9 cranberries left over from the snack that preceded the conversation. The intervention of time and appetite were needed for the image on the bottom to be partially revealed.
We have given shape to an irregular dinnerware that leaves strange gaps when stacked.

We continue with the misty meadow.
Between the lagoons, there is now a path that is increasingly visible.
Its surface peels away due to contact. From friction, the resistance the surface encounters when it moves in contact with another object, involving itself with things.
The longer we follow the path, the easier it becomes to see it.
Someone asks: Which way is it?
And someone says that there’s a path over there. 

The more that a path is used, the more the path is used.
As Sara Ahmed says.

On the plate, a hand encounters the wrist of another hand, in a brief gesture prior to a contact between palms. On moving the small fruits, forms are uncovered and concealed. It is impossible to obtain a complete image. Space is left to continue interpreting.

We don’t know if by the time you read this the mosaic will continue to be there. The reform has emptied the space and made it clearly visible. I could describe it to you. It stands out from the rest of the wall.
We do not know how long it will last, or who will continue to remember it when it is rubble.

We return to the mist that shrouds the lagoons. Each time they are mentioned, their contour dissolves, the image changes; it appears different.
The conversation leaves marks in the mud. With each mark, another form.
In that fluctuation, the lagoons grow wider.

Is this now a form?
What is the purpose of that resistance to closing the forms? Which way does it direct us?

Tiento is a study group that aims to create a learning community based on the exercise of reading, writing and listening; to collectivise an action that is usually interior and individual: to think in a complex way using words. The Tiento II group, which met from February to June 2025, was coordinated by Alejandra Marquerie, Blanca Niemietz and Jara Roset. It was formed of: Concha García de la Fuente, Cristina Souto Pita, Haizea Foroni, Kristina Ortiz, Lucía Onzain, Maider Egaña, Marta Losada, Mireia Ferri, Miren Jaio, Nahia Alonso, Rita López-Barajas, Rita Sixto and Saioa Miguel Moreno.

Tiento’s proposal was selected together with In between the verses winging from hill to hill, all was utterly silent by Nour Bishouty and Adrian Schindler, in the 2024 open call for residencies. The jury was formed of Carles Àngel Saurí (curator), Gema Intxausti (artist) and the members of Bulegoa z/b.