Isabel Hurley Gallery Opens David Escalona & Chantal Maillard’s “Where do Birds Die”

“Where do Birds Die (Dónde mueren los pájaros)” is a project that came out of the dialogue kept between David Escalona and Chantal Maillard over the years; a meeting with plenty of small developments where the bounds between both artists and their respective creative supports cannot be demarcated. Who started? What belongs to each one? Until when? It’s not about illustrating a poem, or interpreting a visual work with words, but putting usual perceptions aside and promoting a space, physical or mental, crossed by multiplicities, confluences, echoes or resonances, which invites to reflect. It’s important to show the coexistence of different artistic disciplines throughout the history and, nevertheless, they are usually taken as different elements, without any communication. Strictly speaking, this project cannot be described as inter-disciplinary or inter-personal, but prefix trans would be more accurate, since it goes beyond the exchange based on two different parties complementing each other, the limits imposed or self-imposed to create a scenery with no hierarchy.

The works included in this project are just residual traces of a meeting favored through the metaphor; traces that represent the witness creators give viewers to fulfill their needs, expectations or desires; so they can find some answers or ask new questions.

“Where do Birds Die” is a weird place, no man’s land where, by means of poetry, drawing, sculpture and installation, Chantal Maillard and David Escalona invite to reflect, from a compassionate viewpoint, on the History of Mankind; the history of a perpetual crime.

David Escalona (Málaga, 1981) graduated in Fine Arts and is presently working to get his PhD with UGR. He has been given numerous awards, scholarships and support, and he has carried out several solo and collective shows in commercial spaces and prestigious institutions.

Chantal Maillard (Brussels, 1951) did her doctorate in Philosophy, she’s an expert in Philosophy and Religions from India and studied at Banaras Hindu University (Benarés). Until 2000, she was teaching at the Philosophy Faculty of Málaga, where promoted the study of compared Philosophy and Aesthetics. Since 1998, she has worked as an art critic with the Cultural Supplements of ABC and El País newspapers. She has written several poem books, essays and diaries.

June 6th -July 31st Opening: Friday June 6th

Isabel Hurley Gallery Paseo de Reding, 39, first floor to the left Málaga, SC 29016 Spain