The group show Petite Planète begins with just one work, Dora García’s performance Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years, which will be held only on May 3 and 4. The piece is the result of a conversation between the artist, Andrea Valdés and Manuel Asín in which the image of two planets colliding for thousands of years until they became one emerged. For Dora García, this image was a perfect description of the relationship between poetry and philosophy. The artist borrowed this idea and turned it into the setting for an extremely simple and contemplative performance, one with no fixed duration, no clear beginning or end. The work consists of a space on the ground that is defined by two non-concentric circles (the planets). The outer circle is painted white and inside it lays the other circle, an off-centered hole. Two people with some physical similarity stand in each of the circles they agree on a distance and they lock their gazes, keeping eye-contact all along the performance. Each gesture, each change in the position of one of them, will be replicated by the other to continue maintaining the initial distance. Neither of the performers can step on the territory of the other. The strength of the work lies in its simplicity. It all comes down to the intimate exchange between the performers. The observation of the two figures orbiting slowly and silently in their circles, this kind of mandala or spiritual geometric arena that facilitates concentration, can also be a meditative experience for the viewer.
On the day of the opening, May 7, all the works in Petite Planète will be added to what will remain of García’s performance, the “two planets”.