In silent lotuses rose
Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía C3A•Apr 22, 2025 — Jul 22, 2025
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Ulysses, the Homeric hero who emerges victorious from the Trojan War, whose cunning led him to conceive a hollow wooden horse to infiltrate enemy territory, and whose return to Ithaca is filled with challenges he overcomes with courage and wit, is turned by Raquel Algaba into a fragile puppet. Algaba’s jointed-body Ulysses moves at the mercy of the winds. It is doubtful he will ever reach home. Fragments of his frail figure are left behind along the way. He is a castaway from himself. He stumbles over too many obstacles in the turbulent sea that churns in the pit of his stomach.
A few years ago (in the exhibition The Silence of the Sirens, 2020), the Madrid-based artist staged her puppet antihero for the first time, offering her own version of Book XII of The Odyssey: the episode in which Homer recounts how clever Ulysses and his crew escape the lure of the sirens’ song. On that occasion, Algaba showed us—or so it seemed to me—a Ulysses...More
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In silent lotuses rose
Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía C3A•Apr 22, 2025 — Jul 22, 2025
Press Release
Ulysses, the Homeric hero who emerges victorious from the Trojan War, whose cunning led him to conceive a hollow wooden horse to infiltrate enemy territory, and whose return to Ithaca is filled with challenges he overcomes with courage and wit, is turned by Raquel Algaba into a fragile puppet. Algaba’s jointed-body Ulysses moves at the mercy of the winds. It is doubtful he will ever reach home. Fragments of his frail figure are left behind along the way. He is a castaway from himself. He stumbles over too many obstacles in the turbulent sea that churns in the pit of his stomach.
A few years ago (in the exhibition The Silence of the Sirens, 2020), the Madrid-based artist staged her puppet antihero for the first time, offering her own version of Book XII of The Odyssey: the episode in which Homer recounts how clever Ulysses and his crew escape the lure of the sirens’ song. On that occasion, Algaba showed us—or so it seemed to me—a Ulysses...More
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