Tony Orrico’s artistic practice arises from and is informed by his previous experience in contemporary dance. As a former member of Trisha Brown’s company, his works explore mental and physical endurance, somatic drawing, choreography and the visual trace of movement. In this exhibition, Orrico explores the idea of the body as a receptacle of memory. Each mark on the paper represents a physical manifestation of a mental choreography, inviting an immersion in the architecture of thought.

The exhibition, is his first show in Madrid, and is a brief compendium of three of his most emblematic series of work: Textiles, where he investigates the notion of a mental loom, creating tessellations from phrases derived from personal memories, handwritten in an ambidextrous and mirrored way, generating changing patterns that become a kind of mental trails; Penwald Drawings, a series of performative works that explore the symmetry and balance of the cerebral hemispheres, investigating the idea of reflection and bifurcation; Hand Movie, is a video work that pays tribute to Yvonne Reiner, an artist who has deeply influenced Orrico’s work. This is a multiplied and expanded reinterpretation of Reiner’s original work from 1966, where Orrico investigates the autonomy and agency of the hand in relation to the rest of the body and memory.

The conjunction of these works leads us to critically reflect on the interaction between the body, memory, oblivion and the construction of identities. The movement freezes in the lines of the drawing, which becomes a witness to the inquires of the artist’s memory. Like graphic cross-sections of a map of neural connections, mental concepts spread across the paper; They arrive, deviate, mutate and then stop in time.