Eight Cubic Meters by Amelia Urdaneta Uribe: Landslides (derrumbamientos)
When: 8 May – 5 June
Opening: Thursday 8 May, 17:00h
Where: Eight Cubic Meters, Sint Nicolaasstraat, Amsterdam
Landslides (derrumbamientos)
How long does it take to disappear, to be broken down? To become extinct?
Our ability to create images has increased rapidly, as has our capacity to store them. They remain frozen in time—not aging, not fading at the corners, or losing definition after years in a closet.
Landslides is an exploration of materiality and transformation. Eight paintings were buried and removed from the soil on a weekly basis. Underground, the panels’ components began to change as they interacted with biotic factors such as fungi and bacteria. These became systems that continued to evolve over two months, contrasting the images’ static nature with the living transformation of the materials beneath.
Materiality is not fixed but in flux. What began as an intentional gesture slowly surrendered to unpredictable interventions from the soil, moisture, decay, and time. By collaborating with the earth, Landslides challenges our understanding of authorship, permanence, and the urgency to control.