Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez
New Plane
26.03.2009 - 19.04.2009
New Plane presented a new body of sculptural works by Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez that explored the relationship between materiality, space, and perception through a delicate interplay of glass and paper. Combining architectural precision with an acute sense of fragility, the works occupied a territory between construction and collapse, proposing forms that appear simultaneously grounded and weightless.
Working with materials traditionally associated with both permanence and vulnerability, Echeverri Fernandez constructs assemblages that challenge conventional notions of sculptural stability. Sheets of glass, folded paper, reflections, shadows, and subtle interventions combine to create spatial structures that seem to hover between object and image. Physical boundaries become increasingly uncertain as surfaces dissolve into reflections and shadows extend the work beyond its material limits.
Central to the exhibition is an exploration of contradiction. Transparency and opacity, solidity and fragility, interiority and exteriority coexist within carefully balanced compositions that resist fixed interpretation. Abrupt shifts in texture and material generate a complex network of planes and voids, producing spaces that appear simultaneously open and enclosed. Light becomes an active material within the work, activating surfaces and creating constantly shifting relationships between form, reflection, and perception.
The sculptures operate as provisional architectures. Their delicate constructions suggest models, ruins, shelters, or speculative environments without ever fully resolving into identifiable structures. Rather than representing architecture directly, the works investigate the conditions through which space is constructed and experienced. Reflection, repetition, and displacement continuously destabilise the viewer's orientation, creating moments where inside and outside, object and environment, become difficult to distinguish.
Throughout the exhibition, Echeverri Fernandez demonstrates a sensitivity to the incidental and the improvised. Seemingly minor gestures and unstable connections play a significant role in the formation of the works, introducing an element of contingency that counters their geometric rigour. This balance between control and unpredictability allows the sculptures to remain open, dynamic, and continually responsive to their surroundings.
New Plane ultimately proposes sculpture as a site of possibility rather than certainty. Through the careful orchestration of material, light, and space, the exhibition creates environments that challenge habitual ways of seeing and navigating the world. The resulting works occupy a suspended territory between architecture and image, permanence and transience, inviting viewers into a spatial experience defined by ambiguity, instability, and potential transformation.