Liliana Porter: My name is Liliana Porter. Wrinkle is a series of 10 photo-etchings. Through these images, I show the development of a gesture, the gesture of wrinkling a paper.
It's almost like little stills of a film. It emphasizes the subject of time, in that sense that when you see it all together, it moves from flat to wrinkle, but at the same time, it's still. And I like that superimposition of two opposites.
I was coming from very, sort of, expressionistic printmaking. And at one point I wanted to really simplify everything I was doing. It was interesting to realize that it's impossible to do something that has no meaning. Pads of paper that people wrinkle and throw away, it has no narrative. But it's very difficult to take away the content because we are the ones that create that content. For instance, I would do a little shadow of a corner of a paper. It becomes right away poetic, right away sad. It gets filled with meaning, no matter what you do to try to avoid it. I am interested that through this very simple situation, you can open up reflections about the concept of time, the concept of representation, and ideas of life and death.