Escocia (Scotland)

Alongside his sculptural work, Sergi Aguilar creates drawings and photographs of places he has visited, and the idea of travel is central to his poetics. As he puts it, ‘Temporality, the beginning and the end, the duration of acts and things, change, the passing of time, the period and the ephemeral. These are words that we can link to many of the physical bodies we call sculptures’.

Escocia (Scotland) shows an old cemetery. The stone gravestones have lost their inscriptions, becoming empty pedestals, caught between waiting and abandonment. As Aguilar explains, ‘One of the rare obligations we have as sculptors is to occupy space’. These commemorative structures remind us that sculpture is an exercise in language with the social task of organising a void, a lack or an absence